Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 3 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 4 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 5 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 6 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 7 | He tried to think himself into a detective frame of mind . |
| 8 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 9 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 10 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 11 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 12 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 13 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 14 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 15 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 16 | In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan . |
| 17 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 18 | He has shown himself as a devoted family man ; Ms Campbell is twice divorced and childless . |
| 19 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 20 | Atkinson stepped in to sign the 21-year-old 12 months ago and he has established himself in the Villa side ahead of Nigel Spink . |
| 21 | He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’ |
| 22 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 23 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 24 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 25 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 26 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 27 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 28 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 29 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 30 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |