Example sentences of "would [vb infin] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 2 | By the same token , one wonders what leader , in some of the countries so quick to condemn Smith , would expose himself to such a cross-examination ? ) |
| 3 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 4 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 5 | Harvey , who had the reputation of a coureur , would run himself into more trouble if he were not careful . |
| 6 | A Herefordshire hobgoblin would avenge himself for any insult by stealing all the family 's keys and refusing to return them until his favourite cake had been baked and left on the hob for him to eat . |
| 7 | if we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245 , the first day of the Venetian year , he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence ; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa , the year 1246 would already have begun there . |