Example sentences of "[verb] himself and " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 2 | ‘ It need hardly be stressed how undesirable a situation is , whereby a prisoner can hang himself and remain suspended for several hours within a cell , unbeknown to either his cellmate or the supervising authority , ’ said the sheriff . |
| 3 | His peers liked him , even , in the end , Fairbrother , who enjoyed climbing himself and appreciated Richard 's gifts . |
| 4 | No one used the cloakroom where Jarvis 's grandfather had hanged himself and no grown-up person ever would . |
| 5 | The day before Joe came home Anne heard the shocking news that Cormac O'Neill had hanged himself and his mother had found his dead body . |
| 6 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 7 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 8 | Having installed himself and his family in a comfortable , modern house in Hendon , Chapman spelled out his aims in the programme for the first match . |
| 9 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 10 | Then he stopped himself and Loppe and said , ‘ I am glad . |
| 11 | Rosenthal was about to ask something further , but then he stopped himself and said , ‘ Do n't tell me . ’ |
| 12 | He helped himself and we were too busy to stop him . |
| 13 | Protecting himself and his family from fanatic Miller hellbent on revenge . |
| 14 | It should fulfil the double function of protecting himself and appealing to Lorton . |
| 15 | And , and the bloke caught himself and . |
| 16 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 17 | Well , the er th they seem to Richard seemed to cry a bit more or a bit easier , you know , if he bumped himself and Bryony , and I think it was , well Bryony it seemed to be a heavy cold that was making her feel miserable . |
| 18 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 20 | He let himself and the house go . |
| 21 | Then he coughed a little as if he had embarrassed himself and went on , returning to his normal , slightly facetious manner , ‘ Though not one Mrs Hobbs cared for , I 'm afraid . |
| 22 | He blessed himself and dropped his eyes as the hearse passed . |
| 23 | Clicking his heels together and bowing slightly , Tim — or Tiger Tim as his pals dubbed him — would formally introduce himself and his sniggering friends . |
| 24 | It was prudent of Saad Rashid to hide himself and his family away . |
| 25 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 26 | And a killjoy is one that do n't enjoy himself and let other people |
| 27 | When he broke his neck and doctors said he might not race again , he discharged himself and was on the circuit again within seven weeks . |
| 28 | A month later he discharged himself and trudged south to London . |
| 29 | He described himself and his colleagues as facilitators who would try to help create the climate for negotiations . |
| 30 | He noticed that Minton often talked despairingly and on several occasions involved himself and Vaughan in discussions of suicide . |