Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 2 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 3 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 4 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 5 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 6 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 7 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 8 | No one has yet suggested that Mikhail Gorbachev , or anyone else for that matter , should make himself Lord Protector . |
| 9 | He had explained about Ari , vehemently disagreed with Zambia 's suggestion he should make himself known to the girl , and tortured himself out loud with conjectures about how Roirbak and Leila might , at this very moment , be destroying Ari 's abilities beneath their feet . |
| 10 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 11 | An appropriately experienced consultation partner who is a valuations specialist and is not otherwise associated with the client 's ( or the subject entity 's , if different ) affairs should be appointed , and thereafter , should make himself available for consultation as required during the engagement . |
| 12 | The honourable calling of a councillor must be of the highest worth for no councillor must lower himself or his calling by obtaining any illegal financial gain from his activities as a councillor . |
| 13 | He is a husband who recites with dull pain the continuing succession of his wife 's lovers , while he must comfort himself with fantasies — his own , or the kind printed on cheap paper . |
| 14 | Through personal observation and enquiry , the manager should reassure himself that the length of the overlap period is fully justified for necessary communication and activity . |
| 15 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 16 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 17 | He acknowledges that before a contemplative is ready , like Moses , to climb the mountain , he must prepare himself by the time-honoured Western disciplines of Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio — study of scripture , meditation and prayer — but he tells his readers that other authors will tell them all they need to know about these . |
| 18 | Immediately the caveman must prepare himself for two possibilities . |
| 19 | He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions . |
| 20 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |
| 21 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 22 | In a sense it was inevitable that Kelly should cover himself in glory . |
| 23 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 24 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 25 | A detective chief super should immerse himself in bumf until the last trump sounds and like it . |
| 26 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 27 | That man should consider himself lucky that Marvin had n't actually been in the mood for a brawl . |
| 28 | ‘ Craig is my first-born son and I love him dearly , ’ she paused , ‘ but , after what he 's done , Craig must consider himself disowned by the entire Grenfell family . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 30 | In routine work the field man must display himself as competent in other , subtler ways , showing himself to be on top of his job . |