Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] himself [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 2 | He 'd got himself into enough trouble already by doing too much of that . |
| 3 | With a sinking feeling she knew what he meant — he had no intention of telling his brother how he 'd got himself into this situation . |
| 4 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 5 | Every morning , Mandru liked to indulge himself in religious spectacle , although the Ixmaritians all doubted whether this was inspired by faith and devotion . |
| 6 | A driver had wrenched himself from another machine and was running back . |
| 7 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 8 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 9 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 10 | When she thought of her son-in-law , how he had inveigled himself into this house and into this old woman 's good books , she again felt a pity for Len rise in her . |
| 11 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 12 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 13 | A key tradition claims St Magnus refused to arm himself for this battle and chose to sing from his psalter on King Magnus 's ship , surviving unhurt in the midst of the fray . |