Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] himself [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 2 | Instead , once again , he has left himself open to more criticism . |
| 3 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 4 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 5 | ‘ I think he 'd got himself involved with the law . |
| 6 | These preparations disturbed her ; why had he bothered to make himself beautiful for her ? |
| 7 | It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind . |
| 8 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 9 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 10 | He had cut himself loose from the past and had good hopes of making a comfortable landfall . |
| 11 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 12 | The Magistrate hesitated , stroking those terrible , radical , flaring whiskers of his … since he had shouted himself hoarse as a young man in 1832 he had been devoted to the radical cause , a supporter of Chartism , of factory reform , and of every other progressive notion which crossed his path . |