Example sentences of "him [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people .
2 Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ?
3 Rain left him supporting himself against a table as she fetched her shoulder bag .
4 But this had never required him to put himself in the spotlight .
5 ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor .
6 She felt him gather himself like a beast on the powerful springs of its limbs .
7 Outspoken ENB member Jim McIntegart threatened the UKCC with a High Court Injunction if it did not allow him to describe himself as an RMN .
8 Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat .
9 Alfonso took the oath , but he never forgave Rodrigo for forcing him to humble himself before the rest of his vassals .
10 She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces .
11 I think there was a driving need in him to push himself to the limits , and there was a purity in the desert and in the Arabs as a race which appealed to him . ’
12 From a sitting position he rubbed and thumped the leg until it responded sufficiently for him to drag himself to the bathroom .
13 He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy .
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