Example sentences of "he be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 2 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 3 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 4 | He is easing himself into his part , into an American voice . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 6 | Back with a ragga version of a Beatles song , he 's bracing himself for another savaging , but at least he 's got a hit , he tells TERRY STAUNTON . |
| 7 | He 's wearing himself to heavy ovals , |
| 8 | ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team . |
| 9 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 10 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 11 | But apart from his rugby chores , McBride will be stretching his maternal instincts to the limit — He 's gearing himself to be a father for the first time in October . |
| 12 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 13 | He was dealing himself in too much . |
| 14 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 15 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 16 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 17 | He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity . |
| 18 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 19 | The ‘ English gentleman ’ star spent five days in hospital with a perforated ulcer — and was told he was drinking himself to death . |
| 20 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 21 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 23 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 24 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 25 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 26 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 27 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 28 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 29 | He was probing himself for me . |
| 30 | He was killing himself with laughing , but dashed over to the security man and put Kenny out of his misery . |