Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] himself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 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 | With her here to keep la Principessa happy , he could slip the leash and enjoy himself a bit — and if he could seduce her into his bed in between times , so much the better . |
| 5 | He went to the side-table and poured himself a glass of water . |
| 6 | He should have pitched her into Foxton Mire and saved himself a lot of trouble . |
| 7 | In retrospect , perhaps his greatest mistake since the coup was not to call elections to parliament and guarantee himself a more liberal body . |
| 8 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |
| 9 | She noted the flicker of a smile as he came into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee , but she ignored him , turning her back as she scanned the phone book , desperately hunting for a garage that was reasonably near to this god-forsaken place . |
| 10 | Wilson succeeded Gaitskell as leader and proved himself a much more astute politician , able to make considerable capital out of the scandals of Macmillan 's last years ( the Profumo affair , Rachmanism ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He came into the room and poured himself a glass of water from the earthenware jug which stood , as it did in all the offices of Cairo , in the window so that the air currents could cool it . |
| 13 | One of the graduate trainees at the time I was there was Alan Williams , son of Emlyn and to become himself a bestselling author . |
| 14 | Manningham was in full flood , downing his drink and pouring himself a fresh one . |
| 15 | 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 . ) |
| 16 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
| 17 | He took off his shoes , climbed into a chair , rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee . |
| 18 | The four of us were going out somewhere Anthony said , hang on , hang on , I 'm not ready yet , got out your ironing board and your iron and ironed himself a hanky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | London Life , covering a party held by the National Sun and Air Association , went into some detail in describing the magician Mr Tony Alexander , who , despite his absence of clothing , managed to Produce cards and handkerchiefs from thin air and won himself a round of applause — and a five pound bet into the bargain . |
| 21 | Charles went back on his resolution and poured himself a large Bell 's . |
| 22 | D'Arcy stood back from the patient and lit himself a small cigar . |
| 23 | He took the bottle of whisky from the dresser and poured himself a drink . |
| 24 | Peter left school and got himself a sales job but he was discovered stealing from a customer . |
| 25 | Tom Carey found some brandy and gave himself a double . |
| 26 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 27 | He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When she had gone he took his bottle of schnapps from the bedside cupboard and poured himself a glass , then lay back against the pillows , thinking about what to do next . |
| 30 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |