Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 2 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 3 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 4 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 5 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 6 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 7 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 8 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |
| 9 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 10 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 11 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |