Example sentences of "n't [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | That here 's this discussion with you before I know some of you , but the very nature of the salesman , does n't lend himself very well to being organised . |
| 2 | And Mr Mitchum would n't perjure himself . |
| 3 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 4 | So , he gave himself a red light on the beautiful Miss Marlowe , only to find he could n't make himself obey it . |
| 5 | No Toby did n't hurt himself , who hurt you ? |
| 6 | Well as long as he does n't hurt himself . |
| 7 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 8 | This was all quite accepted , but he could n't rid himself of the memory of his wife gazing blankly at the breakfast table with only the prospect of clearing it . |
| 9 | He knows he does n't approve himself . |
| 10 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 11 | D'Arcy did n't trust himself to speak . |
| 12 | I guess he went through a period where he felt frustrated with himself , he did n't trust himself . |
| 13 | Aurel could n't trust himself . |
| 14 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 15 | He levered himself away from her , as if he could n't trust himself to stay close , swinging his feet to the floor and rubbing a distracted hand over his jaw , and up through his hair . |
| 16 | Perhaps he did n't know himself . |
| 17 | He would n't tell me a whole lot about what the countries were like , because he did n't know himself . |
| 18 | He does n't know himself — I do n't think he 's really taken it in yet . |
| 19 | Perhaps he did n't know himself . |
| 20 | He did n't know himself what he meant by that … |
| 21 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |
| 22 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 23 | But then Summerchild did n't know himself to start with , by the sound of it . |
| 24 | The really astonishing thing was that Walter Schellenberg did n't consider himself a Nazi , looked on the Third Reich as a sorry charade , its main protagonists actors of a very low order indeed . |
| 25 | He does n't consider himself squeamish . |
| 26 | And a killjoy is one that do n't enjoy himself and let other people |
| 27 | Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite . |
| 28 | He obviously had n't stinted himself with She-She back there . |
| 29 | He does n't exclude himself . |
| 30 | He ca n't sacrifice himself now . |