Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 2 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 3 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 4 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 5 | Asks Laverne , subjecting the pond life he picks off himself to tight scrutiny . |
| 6 | He smiled at himself in one of Karen 's mirrors . |
| 7 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |
| 8 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |