Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster .
8 ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn .
9 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 .
10 On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials .
11 He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself .
12 Back inside the house , he found himself confronted by the gin-filled man .
13 Cast ashore with his retinue in a storm , he found himself surrounded by a ‘ huge army of pagans ’ bent on plunder and murder .
14 He heard himself described as an undesirable scourge of the neighbourhood by several witnesses .
15 He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence .
16 At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder .
17 At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder .
18 And he saw himself left with a ridiculous , dead feeling , and — a half-drugged , frightened , tearful , disgusted young girl .
19 The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky .
20 The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor .
21 More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows .
22 Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza .
23 Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate .
24 He held himself poised for a moment , then he thrust hard into the boy 's body .
25 He makes himself known with a tiny , metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes .
26 There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ .
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