Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 2 | While Patsy silently and privately swore his revenge as he tried to scrub himself clean . |
| 3 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 4 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 5 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 6 | Instead , once again , he has left himself open to more criticism . |
| 7 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 8 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 10 | He must have ordered them by telephone when he 'd found himself unable to contact her direct . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he 'd got himself involved with the law . |
| 12 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 13 | These preparations disturbed her ; why had he bothered to make himself beautiful for her ? |
| 14 | Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 17 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had made himself prime ministerial : adopting double-breasted suits and gold-rimmed spectacles , shortening his sentences and restraining his instinctive jerks of the head . |
| 20 | He looked at her carefully to see he had made himself clear , then resumed his search through the file . |
| 21 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 22 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 23 | It was remembered long after Anselm 's death that he had professed himself afraid to die , and to appear in the sight of God , until he had punished the archbishop of York for infringement of the jurisdiction of Canterbury . |
| 24 | He had cut himself loose from the past and had good hopes of making a comfortable landfall . |
| 25 | For her to like him he had to make himself invisible . |
| 26 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 27 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 28 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 29 | He could n't quite believe he had found himself such a beautiful animal . |
| 30 | 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 . |