Example sentences of "he be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 2 | He is easing himself into his part , into an American voice . |
| 3 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 4 | He was probing himself for me . |
| 5 | Gandhi himself claimed that his purpose in fasting was to take upon himself the burden of the workers ; he was identifying himself with them and sharing their despair , frustration and suffering . |
| 6 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |