Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 2 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 3 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 4 | He wraps around himself the dusty patchwork cloak of his invisibility and the heralds gallop hither and yon in vain . |
| 5 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 6 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 7 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |