Example sentences of "to give himself [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 2 | To give himself more time he asked the Bookman if he would help him with his homework . |
| 3 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 4 | His brothers Simon and Peter Eubanks ( Chris dropped the s , perhaps to give himself some breathing space ) were both fighters , but Chris took a somewhat different approach . |
| 5 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 6 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |