Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows . |
| 2 | He made himself remember the teaching , bringing coolness into his heart : all things have a natural cause which can be discovered . |
| 3 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 4 | When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano , he found himself lugging the trunk into the light . |
| 5 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
| 6 | He went to the court where he found himself dubbed the plaintiff , paid a fee and a deposit for which he received a receipt . |
| 7 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 8 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 9 | he found himself crossing the square |
| 10 | Secretly , and with some self-reproach , he found himself resenting the circumstances of this imposition . |
| 11 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 12 | He found himself avoiding the street in which Francesca lived as he drove for North Kensington , calling ahead on his car phone to make sure that the forensic team was still there . |
| 13 | Riven wanted to find Madra , for she was no longer at his side , but the man in front of him fell and he found himself confronting an enemy militiaman . |
| 14 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 15 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 16 | Sure enough , the waiter returned a moment later and Charlie was with him , brushing dandruff from his jacket as he squared himself to face the public . |
| 17 | He prepared himself to meet the Mahatma on the basis of ‘ personal appeal and conviction ’ , taking to heart the advice of V.S.S. Sastri , who was acting as intermediary , that Gandhi was ‘ like a woman ; you have got to win him ; therefore before you see him , perform all your ablutions , say all your prayers and put on your deepest spiritual robes ’ . |
| 18 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |
| 19 | He allowed himself to show a measure of distaste . |
| 20 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 21 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 22 | He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself . |
| 23 | He heard himself whisper the word , ‘ Help … ’ and then he lost consciousness . |
| 24 | He taught himself to play the tuba . |
| 25 | He braced himself to clout the ball , and watched it race away , like a round of tracer … |
| 26 | In those days arose Rodrigo of Bivar , who was a youth strong in arms and of good customs ; and the people rejoiced in him , for he bestirred himself to protect the land from the Moors . |
| 27 | Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement . |
| 28 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 29 | He forced himself to ignore the painting and pulled his mind back to the MacQuillan case . |
| 30 | Finally , he forced himself to leave the room , pulling the dog out with him and locking the door behind him . |