Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 2 | His ideal was ‘ the complete sympathy of complete detachment ’ , but in practice he distanced himself from his subjects and stressed his severity over the underlying sympathy . |
| 3 | As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself . |
| 4 | Then , almost alone , he awaited his fate , and as the British troops stormed through the gateway of his stronghold he shot himself with a pistol sent to him in happier days by Queen Victoria . |
| 5 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 6 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 7 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 8 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 9 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 10 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 11 | From sand he pours himself into deep water , |
| 12 | Occasionally , there are other setbacks , though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989 . |
| 13 | In works of reference he described himself as ‘ painter and zoologist ’ . |
| 14 | Bertrand Russell 's were n't and a nice pickle he got himself into , though I 'd put it all down to that secretary if I were asked . |
| 15 | Writing out a receipt he bethought himself of the verse from the Book of Proverbs : ‘ Eishes chayil … . |
| 16 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 17 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 18 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 19 | For a moment he launched himself upon them alone , and Owen closed with him gladly against the glare , though dazzled by the flickering gleams and blinking shadows . |
| 20 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 21 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 22 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 23 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 24 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 25 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 26 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 27 | The next day he admitted himself to hospital . |
| 28 | That day he committed himself to being a busker . |
| 29 | For the rest of a sunny but refreshingly cool Delhi day he buried himself in batting practice with a vigour that would have sapped any man without his phenomenal stamina . |
| 30 | The following day he introduced himself to the Old Trafford crowd by appearing in playing gear and juggling with the ball before United 's game against the champions Arsenal . |