Example sentences of "he [vb -s] not [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 2 | He has been convicted of crime , and we shall assume for the moment that he has not behaved himself within the meaning of these words . |
| 3 | He does not hold himself to be an expert in law or insurance . |
| 4 | The patient keeps his hands clasped together throughout the active parts of the transfer , so that he does not throw himself off balance by reaching out to grab the carer or the arm of the chair . |
| 5 | He does not believe himself to be guilty of murder , and yet he now faces between and fifteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 7 | He does not confine himself to ‘ organs of extreme perfection ’ , but also describes , as he believes , maladaptive overdevelopments ( Irish elk ) , nonadaptive organs , useless incipient stages . |
| 8 | Looking back , he says , County 's rapid growth might not have caused problems had the company 's management — and he does not absolve himself from blame — had more depth . |
| 9 | He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation . |