Example sentences of "and [verb] himself a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 2 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 3 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 4 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 5 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 6 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 7 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 8 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |
| 9 | He walked back into the lounge , picked up a bottle half full with scotch , and poured himself a liberal glass full . |
| 10 | He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure . |
| 11 | Charles went back on his resolution and poured himself a large Bell 's . |
| 12 | Tony arrived home and poured himself a large whisky . |
| 13 | He slammed the phone down and allowed himself a small smile . |
| 14 | He upended each of them in turn and allowed himself a grim little smile of satisfaction when a squirming scorpion tumbled from one of them . |
| 15 | The second time I 've sat like this , he thought , and allowed himself a wry smile . |
| 16 | Manningham was in full flood , downing his drink and pouring himself a fresh one . |
| 17 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 18 | Shep got up and gave himself a good stretch . |
| 19 | D'Arcy stood back from the patient and lit himself a small cigar . |
| 20 | Perhaps they felt that it had been a dream all along , always doomed , this fantastical idea that their young brother would go on and get himself a serious education , even go to college . |
| 21 | Let's hope he keeps it up , and makes himself a permanent fixture in the side . |
| 22 | One of the graduate trainees at the time I was there was Alan Williams , son of Emlyn and to become himself a bestselling author . |