Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 2 | He made himself levitate over the capital . |
| 3 | He made himself stare into the eyes in which , to his discomfort , he saw more pain than anger . |
| 4 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 5 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 6 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 7 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 8 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 9 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 10 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 11 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 12 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 13 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 14 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 15 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 16 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 17 | It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line . |
| 18 | He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys . |
| 19 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 20 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 21 | When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster . |
| 22 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 23 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 24 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 26 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 27 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 28 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 29 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 30 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |