Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 2 | Immediately he threw himself into the organization of a monster Albert Hall rally to welcome the Revolution . |
| 3 | The intense processing involved obviously exhausted too much of Gav 's thinly-stretch grey matter to allow speech in the near future , so he contented himself with a grunt and submerged again . |
| 4 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 5 | But he thought something more normal might pay dividends , something that was more within the boy 's everyday range of experience , so he sat himself behind the headmaster 's desk and cultivated an air of briskness . |
| 6 | Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ . |
| 7 | Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass . |
| 8 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 9 | He remembered writing of Paula 's death , — of how he could not live without knowing the truth , and how , if he gave himself into the hands of the great Whale , he knew that he would be reunited with her in death . |
| 10 | He was told that , if he behaved himself in the segregation block where he was being held , he would be allowed to make a call to his father who was seriously ill . |
| 11 | But within twenty-four hours I told Ted that his only chance of carrying on as Leader was if he submitted himself to an early election through the 1922 Committee . |
| 12 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 13 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 14 | She had worked for Pringle 's for years , and Vic was heavily dependent on her know-how while he eased himself into the job . |
| 15 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 16 | She had gone out to the Windmill for ale while he contented himself in the kitchen . |
| 17 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 18 | The Frenchman 's only other classic win came in the Bordeaux-Paris race in 1983 , a year before his career was endangered after he shot himself in the hand while hunting . |
| 19 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |
| 20 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal , was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |
| 21 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |
| 22 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 23 | His mother was watching the weather forecast on television when he let himself into the house . |
| 24 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 25 | Mr Duval then realised the power of international persuasion when he found himself among a group of prisoners who were finally released in 1976 as the result of pressure from Amnesty International and Jimmy Carter 's new US government . |
| 26 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 28 | ‘ Harry not back yet ? ’ he asked , as he seated himself by the open fireplace . |
| 29 | His eyes skimmed her face , his expression unreadable , as he seated himself in the armchair opposite her . |
| 30 | She had changed her clothes — as he had himself in a sprint through his hotel — to a pale coffee-cream skirt and russet blouse under a hip-length waterproof jacket . |