Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ .
2 Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells .
3 He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver .
4 Lucy stared at herself in the mirror .
5 Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure .
6 ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen .
7 ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades .
8 Gautama Buddha looked on himself as a doctor and discovered the correct diagnosis of man 's suffering .
9 Maggie stared at herself in the mirror .
10 Jane grimaced at herself in the mirror .
11 Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space .
12 Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that .
13 Old Donald chuckled in himself as the scene in the road came over him again .
14 McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript .
15 Daisy gazed at herself in the mirror .
16 Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison .
17 Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up .
18 Jenny grimaced at herself in the glass .
19 Wexford chuckled to himself in the car .
20 The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites .
21 Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin .
22 Rhoda looked at herself in the mirror and said , ‘ I do n't see much wrong with me .
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