Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 2 | His plan for a metropolitan see at London had been stillborn but he had rid himself of the problem of Lichfield ( a process completed by 803 ) , successfully confounded his enemies and consolidated the position Offa had established at the height of his power . |
| 3 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 4 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 5 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 6 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 7 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 8 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 9 | He had seated himself in an armchair adjacent to the settee to which Elisa had naturally returned although now she was sitting rather prim and upright on the edge . |
| 10 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 11 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 12 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 13 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 14 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 15 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 16 | Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass . |
| 17 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 18 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 19 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 20 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 21 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 22 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 23 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 24 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 25 | In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy . |
| 26 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 28 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 29 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 30 | He had drowned himself in the Rectory pond . ’ |