Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Else told 'im not to be disgustin' , and now every night there 's a terrible row before they go to bed — our bedroom 's right underneath theirs — and Else says she wo n't sleep in the same bed with 'im until 'e washes 'imself . ’ |
| 2 | 'E makes isself vulnerable . |
| 3 | And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself ’ ( 1 John 3:2f ) . |
| 4 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 5 | The trouble is , he hates himself . |
| 6 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 7 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 8 | Or he turns himself in . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , unless he turns himself in we have to assume that he is the killer . |
| 10 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 11 | The Aird baby has a strong cast of thought and he imposes himself , philosophically speaking ; as he stared at me , lying on my lap , he seemed like a hand of mine . |
| 12 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 13 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 14 | He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself : the defence of this country . |
| 15 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 16 | He was a handsome chap in a sinister sort of way , Al Caponish with a dash of Dracula and a smidgen of Rambo thrown in , but he spoils himself being so nasty . |
| 17 | There is no direct precedent in the second , so he thinks himself free to decide as he thinks best , on a fresh slate , whether or not there is any difference in principle between the two cases . |
| 18 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 19 | For Helfet , the design 's acceptance is a particular triumph , since he prides himself on understanding the Jaguar ethos . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He prides himself on delivering on the optimum date to balance the welfare of mother and baby , and his percentage of vaginal deliveries over Caesarean is amazingly high — which is great , these days . |
| 22 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 23 | He disciplines himself to at least two hours a day in his upstairs studio where he also produces screen printing , water colours and acrylics . |
| 24 | He shuts himself off from his two young daughters and composes laments to his dead wife . |
| 25 | That 's why he shuts himself away in that lonely place . ’ |
| 26 | None of these expressions implies of itself that God as God suffers as we do , still less , as is suggested in Margaret Spufford 's quotation from The Man on a Donkey , in her book Celebration that He renders Himself ‘ powerless against the free and evil wills of men ’ . |
| 27 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 28 | And I thought Grandson Richard was some special person and he turned out to be a human who sings when he wets himself — ‘ |
| 29 | Apparently one of the the little erm boys she say , he wets himself all the time , and she turns round and she goes , he goes to er , ha ha , he started himself , and you have to change all his clothes , like that and she said |
| 30 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |