Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] himself [art] " 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 built for himself a house ( Larkscliff ) on the cliffs at Birchington , Kent ( 1906 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | He grinned to himself a little and thought , you cagey bastard . |
| 6 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 7 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 8 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 9 | As a son of William , the former secretary of the BDDA , he was familiar with the deaf world from childhood and , as frequently happens with hearing children of deaf parents , he chose for himself a career connected with deafness . |
| 10 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 11 | He felt in himself the freedom that Minch , in her whispered final words , had seemed to begin to forget , and he remembered the words of his parents : ‘ One day you will understand the nature of the power of those eagles … those eagles of Callanish … honour their power , believe in them … ’ |
| 12 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |