Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He helped himself to a glass of mango juice before he replied . |
| 2 | Yesterday he played himself to a world cup spot , more consentrated and on the alert then ever . |
| 3 | There was no sense in which he " slowed down " , however , and in fact he compared himself to a travelling Sherlock Holmes . |
| 4 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 5 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 6 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 7 | Obviously , success in some of those early films had their effect on Wil he promoted himself to a star on the strength of them . |
| 8 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 9 | And just the same as when Jesus was here on earth he was in one place , he he confined himself to a body . |
| 10 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 11 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 12 | As a man , he lends himself to a story as haunting as any in cricket . |
| 13 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |