Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] himself [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law .
2 Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses .
3 She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time .
4 Mairi complained , wishing that Ranald was still at home , and Ranald repeated the need to Hector ; who thought about it , and then started to come down himself with the youngsters .
5 He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest .
6 This last quality — encouraged by Ashcroft Noble — he had learned to recognize in himself during the period of growth between the boy naturalist of The Childhood and the much-sought-after undergraduate writer of Lincoln College who breathes freely through the ornate pages of his own Oxford .
7 News page is a job that Meany has endeavoured to thrust upon himself with the kind of enthusiasm reserved for African Pygmies on an Easter rhino hunt .
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