Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 2 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 3 | He turned to the entries he had made himself . |
| 4 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 5 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 6 | In the RPF years he had allowed himself to get ahead of events . |
| 7 | His pattern of personal leadership , as revealed by the Cabinet committees he chose to chair himself , reinforces the standard interpretation of him as a man more at ease with overseas than with domestic policy . |
| 8 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 9 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 10 | As the DEA was plainly out to get him , and had blocked all access to the files he needed to clear himself , the only avenue open to him was to work with Pan Am , in the common interest of getting at the truth , using his training and experience to piece together the best defence he could . |
| 11 | He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself . |
| 12 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 13 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |