Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] himself [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 2 | Although counting himself an enthusiastic Darwinian , he favoured a Lamarckian view of the evolutionary mechanism and was strongly influenced by the idealist trend in pre-Darwinian biology . |
| 3 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 4 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 5 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 6 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 7 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 8 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 9 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 10 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 11 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 12 | Pourquery displayed a variety of touch shots and moved with great athleticism about the court , to defeat his net rushing opponent 6–4 6–7 6–2 and earn himself an intriguing place in the final against Hunter . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 14 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 15 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 16 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |
| 17 | He walked back into the lounge , picked up a bottle half full with scotch , and poured himself a liberal glass full . |
| 18 | He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure . |
| 19 | Tony arrived home and poured himself a large whisky . |
| 20 | Charles went back on his resolution and poured himself a large Bell 's . |
| 21 | He slammed the phone down and allowed himself a small smile . |
| 22 | The second time I 've sat like this , he thought , and allowed himself a wry smile . |
| 23 | Bishop felt the slight weight of a simularity crystal in the pocket of his robe and allowed himself an inward smile . |
| 24 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 25 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 26 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 27 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 28 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 29 | Shep got up and gave himself a good stretch . |
| 30 | D'Arcy stood back from the patient and lit himself a small cigar . |