Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 2 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 3 | He disliked America , where he described himself as living ‘ among the barbarians ’ . |
| 4 | After leaving school he quickly progressed into the King Country provincial side , where he found himself playing alongside Ceri Jones and Garin Jenkins , the Wales hooker , from Pontypridd . |
| 5 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 6 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 7 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 8 | Or he turns himself in . |
| 9 | Although he endeared himself to Arsenal 's North bank and played impressively enough on the outskirts of the box to sustain his reputation for skilful adventure , he rarely found the net at Highbury and began to look like over-paid hype to the footballing public . |
| 10 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 11 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 12 | In last week 's Tribune , Sawyer suggested that ballots of affiliated members in leadership contests might be made compulsory and that block votes could be split , although he expressed himself more cautiously than Gould intends to . |
| 13 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 14 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 15 | Although he distinguished himself in action , Hodgskin found naval discipline irksome and his comrades ' company desultory . |
| 16 | Although he distanced himself from this view prior to the election , he campaigned strongly on the promise to " return safe and clean streets " . |
| 17 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 18 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 19 | He was put clean through by Ray Houghton in the 68th minute , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn but although he steadied himself to convert from only six yards , he somehow failed to even hit the target . |
| 20 | Immediately he threw himself into the organization of a monster Albert Hall rally to welcome the Revolution . |
| 21 | Mr , you you 've er commented upon Mr 's objection that he made himself , but of course there are he is appearing for many others , |
| 22 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 23 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 24 | World-seasoned traveller that he thought himself Maxim sat glumly watching the dawn over the Washington skyline , having woken far too early and dry-mouthed from the air-conditioning in the aircraft and now the hotel . |
| 25 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 26 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 27 | Black despair engulfed him , and a loneliness so absolute closed over his head that he felt himself drowning in it . |
| 28 | There was a trace of a Dorset accent in the voice , which had sufficient gravity in its tone to let D'Arcy know that he took himself and his position with the utmost seriousness . |
| 29 | Sir John , it appeared , had retained a sufficiently fond memory of his cousin , and was , besides , so moved by her plight that he went himself and fetched her back to Switham . |
| 30 | I do not however believe that he exonerates himself . |