Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 2 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 3 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 4 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 5 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 6 | He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything . |
| 7 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 8 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 9 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 10 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |