Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 2 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |
| 3 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 4 | He shows himself to be here , as he did in his earlier Deconstruction : Theory and Practice , an admirably lucid and urbane expositor of difficult ideas . |
| 5 | In respect of God 's being , the fundamental axiom with which Barth works is that God is ‘ eternally and antecedently in himself ’ what he shows himself to be in Jesus . |
| 6 | Left to his own reflections , he reveals himself to be a bright , keen opportunist . |
| 7 | In his introduction , he reveals himself to be only too aware of the ‘ complex transactions between past and present ’ in which he is involved . |
| 8 | He judges himself by being better . |
| 9 | He feels himself to be privileged . |
| 10 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 11 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 12 | When the story opens the Marquis , Darnay 's father , and his wife are both dead , and the twin brother , Darnay 's uncle , has succeeded to the title and estate ; he proves himself to be even more callous and brutal , beneath a polished surface of ‘ civilization ’ ( his face is ‘ like a fine mask ’ ) , than his brother , and hates his nephew for his liberal principles and determination not to accept the inheritance of the estate whilst the state of French society is still so cruelly inequitable . |
| 13 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 14 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 15 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 16 | In the former case there is no express threat of proceedings to be withdrawn if the defendant pays up promptly because he believes himself to be liable . |
| 17 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |