Example sentences of "he [verb] himself the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 2 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 3 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 4 | He accounted himself the unluckiest man alive . |
| 5 | By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism . |