Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 2 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 3 | He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God . |
| 4 | He looked out at his patch of garden and shook himself all over . |
| 5 | For surely back in Port Talbot a smart young man would have looked a notch or two up the ring-ridden ladder of class and hauled himself up — in his pride — one or two places . |
| 6 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |