Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 2 | He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument . |
| 3 | Parr was not a hasty man , and he gave himself a lot of space to think in . |
| 4 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 5 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |
| 6 | And he poured himself a drink . |
| 7 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |