Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] himself a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not paid himself a proper wage for four months . |
| 2 | DAVID Capper , the BBC Radio Ulster reporter with one of the best-known voices on the air , has just clinched himself a fantastic new job . |
| 3 | We got here just in the right season , and I assure you he has already shown himself a great enemy to the feathered tribe , having shot a great many beautiful birds and robbed various others of their nests and eggs . |
| 4 | So the other night my , the girl next door to us , her husband does painting and he 'd just got himself a new van I said fucking hell I said to him sometimes I said there 's a van outside I wan na know who it is , is that still on ? |
| 5 | ‘ Should we allow a member who has narrowly avoided bankruptcy to keep on calling himself a chartered accountant ? ’ |
| 6 | Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way . |
| 7 | Funny he did n't give himself a new name , but maybe he felt there was no reason why he should . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Brusilov , who had directed Russia 's southern thrust during the Battle of Lemberg , had already proved himself a redoubtable commander of troops in mass . |
| 10 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 11 | Sharpe , despite the Prince 's frequent insistence , had yet to buy himself a Dutch uniform . |