Example sentences of "do not [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray did not make himself available for conversation through the rest of the week . |
| 2 | He did not allow himself many enjoyable things in life . |
| 3 | Likewise , Maxse turned on Bonar Law when he ditched the ‘ food taxes ’ from the tariff programme , and again did not find himself alone in voicing criticism of the new Tory leader . |
| 4 | To this severe driving home of the issue in pursuit of crisis and clarity , Stavrogin might fairly reply that he did n't create himself lukewarm . |
| 5 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 6 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 7 | The right wing candidate does not make himself available for interview and could not be contacted over the weekend . |
| 8 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 9 | He does n't consider himself squeamish . |