Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After watching this film I have overthrown an ideal I have cherished and protected against every attack for more than 30 years : that in no circumstances should a man be murdered by conscious decision of the State in revenge for a murder he has himself committed . |
| 2 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 3 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 4 | From sand he pours himself into deep water , |
| 5 | In his poetry he describes himself as ‘ one bred up in homely Cott ’ . |
| 6 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 7 | In a compromising philosophy he allows himself violence against property but never against life , human or otherwise . |
| 8 | At this moment he calls himself Death : |
| 9 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 10 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 11 | Morrissey is a product of the political climate he finds himself in , a period of the reformist Left moving to the right and the Right getting righter ( ie , bigger liars and thieves ) . |
| 12 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 13 | Using his wings he begins to glide downwards , and by dropping one wing tip and then the other he guides himself towards the enemy army and his chosen target . |
| 14 | With his left hand he eases the weight on the tump-line ; with his right hand on the ground he steadies himself as he starts to rise . |
| 15 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 16 | The greater trust a manager places in subordinates , the less control he retains himself . |
| 17 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 18 | It 's only way you can get over erm tragedy I should say when he married quick because he got another compan for the life he locks himself inside er walls , you never even |
| 19 | So much for the asides — but how good is Lewis on the subject he sets himself — on Milton ? |
| 20 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 21 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 22 | He has a remarkable feeling for , and ability to communicate , the sheer intoxication ( the only kind he permits himself ) of using words well . |
| 23 | At the end of the hour he makes himself tell her . |
| 24 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 25 | In scene four , Anderson 's uneasiness is ultimately of his own making , but in scene six it is the confusing and confrontational nature of the speech situation he finds himself in which unnerves him . |
| 26 | Supt Wallace added : ‘ We are very sympathetic to the situation he finds himself in . |
| 27 | The challenge he sets himself grows from the nature of his materials and their relationship to an evolving form , and the outcome often involves a series of variations on known or familiar objects . |
| 28 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 29 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 30 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |