Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] himself [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 2 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 3 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 4 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 5 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
| 6 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 7 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 8 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |