Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air , turned , and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench . |
| 2 | ‘ As you know , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ the not-fully-late Lord of the Wyrmberg , Greicha the First , has stipulated that there will be no succession until one of his children feels himself — or as . |
| 3 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 4 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 5 | The Khan 's gaze started at his feet and travelled slowly up his body so that by the time their eyes met the Khan was leaning back and holding on to his knees to stop himself falling over . |
| 6 | Anthony Smith demonstrated how spina bifida sufferer Mo Langton , 20 , puts his hands on his knees to lever himself up . |
| 7 | Immune to sound and smell and in no hurry to escape , he pauses at every bale of raw wool , every bolt of half-finished cloth , tugging at it , scrunching it up , letting it slip through his fingers to satisfy himself that all is well . |
| 8 | Whatever the method of evaluation , man 's conscious contribution to goodness , and therefore to the Created God , made by his efforts to civilise himself is , by the twentieth century , utterly minute compared with the corresponding contribution of evolution . |