Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table . |
| 2 | As he pulled back the perspex canopy he permitted himself a small smile at Stallen , whom he knew . |
| 3 | In the teaching controversy he declared himself a strong advocate of at least fingerspelling and stressed the importance of training , knowledge of deaf people and experience of teaching in deaf schools as primary qualifications for teachers . |
| 4 | No doubt he thought himself a national marvel . |
| 5 | In his speech he declared himself a runner . |
| 6 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |