Example sentences of "deliver himself of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 2 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 3 | Feeling himself very much at a crossroads , he delivered himself of some reflections on the modern times they were living through . |
| 4 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 5 | Then he spat in the road , and delivered himself of a surly condemnation . |
| 6 | Having delivered himself of this , his longest speech , Fosdyke sat apparently shrouded in gloom . |
| 7 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 8 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen was delivering himself of a homily . |