Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 2 | He dropped the poker and went to pour himself a much-needed drink . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 4 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 5 | Sharpe , despite the Prince 's frequent insistence , had yet to buy himself a Dutch uniform . |
| 6 | But he was already a fallen idol in Patricia 's eyes , all because he had not been able to deny himself a sentimental gesture before leaving . |
| 7 | It seemed — the least he could do — to deny himself the dramatic gesture , to humiliate himself . |
| 8 | Delaney pulled the curtain across , covering Forster who cut a small slit in the opaque green plastic , widening it to give himself a better field of view . |
| 9 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 10 | Damon Hill produced the performance he had dreamed of to give himself a great chance of finishing on the victory podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 11 | It will be on every player 's mind when he stands on the tee to give himself the best chance of an uphill putt , whether it be from that tee shot or a subsequent approach . |
| 12 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 13 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |
| 14 | In such cases it was to the obvious advantage of the farmer to build himself a new farmstead in the middle of his lands . |
| 15 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 16 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 17 | The out-of-the-practical-swim ex-student , ex-teacher , the worker at thinking in bed , would be able to call himself an arrested man ! |
| 18 | Aldridge made no sign or sound as he went through to the airing cupboard to get himself a fresh towel . |
| 19 | He managed to get himself a special bed at Bedford Institution on pretence of sickness , which proved quite unfounded . |
| 20 | He needs to get himself a proper economics team independent of the accident-prone Treasury establishment . |
| 21 | On 17 , and level with Gower , Gooch off-drove Paul Reiffel for four on the stroke of lunch to earn himself a prolonged standing ovation . |
| 22 | He is trying to prove himself a credible alternative to the absent Paul Gascoigne , and his £2m move to Liverpool should boost his standing . |
| 23 | ‘ Gary has gone on to prove himself an international class player . |
| 24 | One of the graduate trainees at the time I was there was Alan Williams , son of Emlyn and to become himself a bestselling author . |
| 25 | After all , he is well-placed to make himself a familiar figure to the discharger : |
| 26 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 27 | During his two years at Oxford , Clinton wrestled with the Vietnam dilemma , wishing to show himself a loyal patriot , but painfully unconvinced by the justice of America 's involvement in Vietnam . |