Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his grief he had cut himself off from people and when he had recovered he had lost the habit of socializing . |
| 2 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 3 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 4 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 5 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 6 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 7 | It was a question he had asked himself . |
| 8 | One moment he had thought himself alone amongst the greenery and the next he was staring into grey gaunt features closely framed by a tiny skylight in the angle of the roof . |
| 9 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 10 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 11 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 12 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 13 | He also made a separate map of the area he had surveyed himself , several regional maps , two town plans , and ( his only signed work ) a fort plan . |
| 14 | He would carry out the quest he had appointed himself ; take her to her holy man . |
| 15 | It was a dream dictated both by politics and by affection , for he loved this orderly , thoughtful and respectful son , the disciple he had schooled himself , both personally and from a distance . ’ |
| 16 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 17 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 18 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 19 | Its doors shot open and the mower lay smashed on the ground , the effort he had spent himself on , wasted . |
| 20 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 21 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 22 | A steely ascetic renunciation marked his character , and Eusebius of Caesarea reports a tradition that in the zeal of youth he had subjected himself to castration to free him to instruct female pupils without scandal . |
| 23 | Anger tended to drown fear — that was a lesson he had learned himself . |
| 24 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 25 | At the time Jeanne was fascinated by Foujita , the diminutive Japanese artist , who wore gold ear-rings to set off his owl-shaped face and a toga he had woven himself under the influence of Raymond Duncan 's Greek worship . |
| 26 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 27 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 28 | No doubt he had signed himself ‘ Joshua R. Pinnegar ’ or , wiser still , left the ‘ R ’ out entirely . |
| 29 | Kimber died 26 December 1961 in Headington Quarry in the house he had built himself , ‘ Merryville ’ . |
| 30 | He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself . |