Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 2 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 3 | Rain left him supporting himself against a table as she fetched her shoulder bag . |
| 4 | She felt him gather himself like a beast on the powerful springs of its limbs . |
| 5 | Outspoken ENB member Jim McIntegart threatened the UKCC with a High Court Injunction if it did not allow him to describe himself as an RMN . |
| 6 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 7 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 8 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 9 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 10 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 11 | On a more personal level , he concerned himself with a land bill for William Essex , who had married a Harcourt , acting as a feoffee for his Berkshire estate . |
| 12 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 13 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 14 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , he got himself into a number of violent scrapes in Hollywood . |
| 16 | Dining in one restaurant with Hugh Paddick , he got himself into a furious row with a woman doctor at the next table , challenging her views on life . |
| 17 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 18 | ‘ He flung himself onto a grass verge and beat out his blazing trousers . |
| 19 | He flung himself into a chair and drew out his Marlboros . |
| 20 | He flung himself into a chair without waiting to be asked . |
| 21 | A bullet cracked inches above his head and he flung himself behind a row of metal dustbins , the Browning clenched tightly in his hand . |
| 22 | He flung himself in a chair and closed his eyes , giving way to sleep . |
| 23 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 24 | He turned to meet the Doctor 's gaze as he righted himself into an undignified crouch . |
| 25 | God moved in mysterious ways — to Richie he manifested himself as an extremely successful car salesman . |
| 26 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 27 | He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia . |
| 28 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 29 | Mr Duval then realised the power of international persuasion when he found himself among a group of prisoners who were finally released in 1976 as the result of pressure from Amnesty International and Jimmy Carter 's new US government . |
| 30 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |