Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With the agreement of Tony 's parents , Tony would follow a partial timetable for between two and three weeks , allowing him to phase himself into full attendance at the school .
2 He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him .
3 Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge .
4 He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced .
5 As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly .
6 He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes .
7 The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port .
8 He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum .
9 He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core .
10 And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator .
11 Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him .
12 he models himself on Dirty Den
13 Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals .
14 Mr Creme believes Christ has already come again — came a few years ago actually — and is now residing in the Asian community in London , waiting for a more receptive attitude from the press before He shows Himself on worldwide television , when ‘ He wo n't actually speak , but His thoughts , His ideas , His call to humanity , will take place silently , telepathically . ’
15 He threw himself with good grace into everything , even this .
16 The experience convinced him that Europe was on the brink of revolution , and he threw himself into revolutionary Anarchist ‘ Situationism ’ , which rejected conventional left-wing political parties .
17 As he adapted himself to this reputation , Deems indeed grew subtle in his affairs , until man and reputation became one .
18 Lunch was provided in a cafeteria and tea in a common room — an environment which sounds uncomfortably similar to that of more youthful days , and in fact he signed himself in one letter as " Advanced Student " .
19 I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point .
20 He raised himself on one elbow and gingerly felt around his feet .
21 What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability .
22 Suragai 's hands were already scratched and bleeding , and he was cursing quietly in his own tongue as he positioned himself for another rescue attempt .
23 Although he distanced himself from this view prior to the election , he campaigned strongly on the promise to " return safe and clean streets " .
24 Perhaps in those preceding silences he took himself through some sort of editing process , preparatory to making an entrance in which not a word would be wasted .
25 When he had received news that morning from Teheran via Geneva that the ship he had chartered had gone missing , he indulged himself in genuine anger .
26 ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’
27 Before he cleaned himself with old newspaper , Holly knew the germ of his idea .
28 Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ?
29 Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman .
30 He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul .
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