Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his years in charge of a thriving and successful golf club had softened his hard-edged military manner , and he had trained himself to adopt an informal , ‘ civilian ’ manner . |
| 2 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 3 | The solution suddenly came to him , and he had to control himself from shouting out " Eureka " . |
| 4 | Pembroke was well placed to speak for those who wanted a more vigorous and successful war : he had a special place in the king 's affections , and he had acquitted himself well in Aquitaine . |
| 5 | He felt very cold , and he had pissed himself . |
| 6 | They wanted to keep Gustav back too and he had to free himself . |
| 7 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 8 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 9 | In the 1950s Willie had watched Ben Hogan practising for the Open , and he had promised himself he was going to carry for someone like him . |
| 10 | He had the considerable advantage of possessing the imperial insignia and he began to style himself " Rex Romanorum et semper Augustus " — the imperial designation . |
| 11 | He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
| 13 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 14 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 15 | He found his foot stuck in a branch and he bent to free himself . |
| 16 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
| 17 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |