Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 2 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 3 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 4 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 5 | He himself does nothing wrong yet he still punishes himself for other 's wrong doings . |
| 6 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 7 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 8 | He repeatedly expresses himself as awestruck by nature and by the contemplation of truth , and as having a , a desire to worship something outside himself . |
| 9 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 10 | He really launches himself into and through the ball . |
| 11 | He even persuades himself of the splendour . |
| 12 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 13 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 14 | He 's the smiling innocent who so trusts the sharks he meets in his various roles — newspaper reporter , army recruit , spy , racing bike rider or whatever — that he continually lands himself in trouble , forcing him back on reserves of charm , and his skill with a ukulele , to secure his escape . |