Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] himself a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 2 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 3 | Arnulf always considered himself a member of the court , although his services were somewhat sporadic and sometimes unappreciated by the king and his other advisers . |
| 4 | He also hired himself a cook-housekeeper-secretary , Cathy Allen , the wife of an actor friend . |
| 5 | Tremayne said the process saved the owners from wasting money on fruitless horsebox expenses and jockey fees and also saved himself a lot of inexplicable and worrying disappointments . |
| 6 | Gaily allowed himself a smile . |
| 7 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
| 8 | Besides the fact that he was a Jew , he never even considered himself a dissident . |
| 9 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 10 | and then wrote himself a note to remind himself to untie the blooming thing . |