Example sentences of "that he be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 2 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 3 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 4 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 5 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 6 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 7 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |