Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 6 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 7 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 8 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 9 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 10 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 11 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 12 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 13 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 14 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 15 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 16 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 17 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 18 | If he misdirects himself in coming to his decision , the court can say : ‘ Very well then . |
| 19 | An individual sitting on the board of such an inquiry may satisfy his own conscience if he finds himself in disagreement with his colleagues by exercising his right to attach a minority dissenting view to the formal report if he considers it necessary to do so . |
| 20 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 21 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 22 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 23 | But he conducts himself in all situations with a dignity not one whit lessened by his shortness . |
| 24 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 25 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 26 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 27 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 28 | Conran never really switches off from work , because he surrounds himself by objects that are beautifully designed . |
| 29 | In the former case there is no express threat of proceedings to be withdrawn if the defendant pays up promptly because he believes himself to be liable . |
| 30 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season while he devotes himself to his family . |