Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 2 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 3 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 4 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 5 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 6 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 7 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 8 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 9 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 10 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 11 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 12 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 13 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 14 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 15 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 16 | ‘ YO , this is Dalek exercises , mon ! ’ booms Derrick Evans , his skin-tight leotard stretching in impossible directions as he throws himself around the GMTV studio . |
| 17 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |