Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 2 | If he 'd have taken his time and he 'd have got himself some more work yeah ? |
| 3 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 4 | Crazy , of course — if he had caught any of the others doing such a crazy thing he would have laughed himself sick ! |
| 5 | One psychiatrist told the court that after teartment Gore would have to prove himself normal for years before anyone would recommend his release . |
| 6 | If he had said he was acting under his own authority , he would have laid himself open to ridicule . |
| 7 | Whereas , even if nothing goes wrong at the weekend , Mr Smith will have made himself miserable for days in advance . |