Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 2 | Theologians often distinguish between God as he is in himself , and God as he has revealed himself to us . |
| 3 | Studied under Lawrence Gowing and Victor Pasmore at Newcastle University , where he gained his BA in Fine Art from 1963 to 1989 , since when he has devoted himself to his painting . |
| 4 | He has committed himself to us . |
| 5 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 6 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 7 | Recently he has shown himself to be too easily swayed by Mossadesq " a threats … " |
| 8 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 9 | This is shown in the way that he keeps comparing himself to Caesar , saying how much better and more deserving he is than Caesar . |
| 10 | Patiently occupied with his household tasks and with his sketching of Willem , it amused him to notice that ‘ already he seems to oppose himself to all social institutions and conventions . ’ |
| 11 | He tries to fit himself to that ideal . |
| 12 | Well , you know , once he , once he 's once he 's resigned himself to not getting this back . |
| 13 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |