Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 2 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 3 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 4 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |
| 5 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 6 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 7 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 8 | He referred to himself as le prisonnier . |
| 9 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 10 | He said he talked to himself in prison to keep himself sane , but if you told him he was still doing it he would n't believe you . ’ |
| 11 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 12 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 13 | He thought of himself as a bungler . |
| 14 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 15 | He thought of himself as a responsible and dependable person . |
| 16 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 17 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 18 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 19 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 20 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 21 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 22 | He smiled at himself in one of Karen 's mirrors . |
| 23 | . I asked him what he did with himself in Marseilles all day long ? |
| 24 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |
| 25 | He spoke of himself as a hapless , hopeless , helpless male , seven years in thrall to an unknowing , uncaring , unattainable She . |
| 26 | General Robert Scott is still alive and has sent Dick a hand written description of his first aircraft on the back of a photograph he had of himself with his P-40 . |
| 27 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |
| 28 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |