Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And basically he sells himself . |
| 2 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 3 | So he steels himself and starts on about Ireland and exile , beginning with his journey from Dublin to work as a navvy in London in the ‘ 70s . |
| 4 | Thus he trains himself eventually to tackle larger problems and to gain insight into the underlying principles by which these limits may be synthesized . |
| 5 | For sixthly he invites himself round for a drink one evening . |
| 6 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 7 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 8 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 9 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 10 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |
| 11 | Today he describes himself as ‘ an active pensioner ’ — and , indeed , is very sprightly both in mind and body . |
| 12 | No company would permit an unqualified accountant to audit its books , no matter how well he presents himself , and no patient would allow a doctor without qualifications to operate on him just because he has plenty of ‘ implied ’ ability . |
| 13 | Where Falstaff has spent his life deceiving others , here he deceives himself , and is thrust out of this medium so far above his resources , social or moral : ‘ I know thee not , old man , fall to thy prayers ’ . |
| 14 | It is the Holy Spirit at work in our souls , a gift of the divine Love of the Trinity , which enables us to love God with the same love whereby he loves himself . |
| 15 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 16 | Maybe sometimes he forces himself . |
| 17 | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true , and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies . |
| 18 | Jip , for his part , imagines his mother Paula writing and then he catches himself and reflects on his motives : |
| 19 | At the very least he sees himself as descended from Agricola , steward of England , and as Christ 's deputy , when he says in B137 : |
| 20 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 21 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 22 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 23 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 24 | If it is much easier for senior staff to make negative rather than favourable assessments of his ability , the field officer is faced with an important practical problem of how he portrays himself to his seniors as good at his job . |
| 25 | As Mr Khalil points out , the arch is both a literal image of Mr Hussein ( those are his arms and no one else 's ) , and a giant reflection of how he sees himself . |
| 26 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 27 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 28 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 29 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 30 | That 's why he shuts himself away in that lonely place . ’ |