Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 2 | how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 3 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 4 | It was not easy for him to separate himself from Marian . |
| 5 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 6 | But the broken right shin and thigh bones did n't stop him discharging himself from hospital . |
| 7 | Billie crawled over to Adam , who was still yelling loudly , and knelt next to him , waiting for him to bring himself under control . |
| 8 | The senior management of the force has required him to involve himself in politics , to deal with an authority out to undermine him , without adequate resources or support : ‘ I am conscious that this job gives no backing to senior officers who are libelled , and as far as I am concerned , the job is derelict in its duty to police chiefs . ’ |
| 9 | Kane , in creating the world , did not , like Yahweh , make light : he made himself into light . |
| 10 | ‘ He made himself at home . |
| 11 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 12 | If Felipe thought she would take the husband off his hands while he amused himself with Candace he was very much mistaken ! |
| 13 | To coincide with this , he relaunched himself as Revd Fr. |
| 14 | Davide began to enjoy his work even less than before ; he applied himself to property transactions . |
| 15 | He applied himself to business with intense seriousness of purpose . |
| 16 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 17 | ‘ When he was here , did he make himself at home ? ’ |
| 18 | Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it . |
| 19 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 20 | The next day he admitted himself to hospital . |
| 21 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 22 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 24 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 25 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 26 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 27 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 28 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 29 | At 20 , he found himself in Paris heading Lanvin 's millinery department . |
| 30 | Then he found himself in conversation with the Queen and the subject cropped up . |