Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters who responded eagerly to his promise of a " New Deal " , and he polled 22 million votes to Hoover 's 15 million , carrying 42 out of 48 states . |
| 2 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 3 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 4 | More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation . |
| 5 | It was almost as though he was trying to erect walls around his heart to protect himself from his softer feelings . |
| 6 | His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently . |
| 7 | His grip tightened , his fingers burying themselves in the knot of hair at her nape . |
| 8 | His fingers wrapped themselves round her ankles , sliding upwards , making her skin tingle . |
| 9 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 10 | The obverse of his strength as party leader in the peculiar circumstances of British politics today has been his inability to present himself as a national leader . |
| 11 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 12 | We may well find it significant that there is no evidence during this period of any attempt on his part to acquaint himself with Wagner 's own voluminous theoretical prose . |
| 13 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 14 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 15 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 16 | And almost before he had finished speaking , his mouth forced itself over hers in a kiss that was clearly designed to punish her for that last remark . |
| 17 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 18 | In about 1805 he and his brothers established themselves in Bristol as ‘ stonemasons , architects , builders etc . ’ , |
| 19 | So was it reasonable for the driver to step in and use his car to defend himself against a gang armed with lumps of concrete ? |
| 20 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 21 | Certainly , as his mind prepared itself for the acceptance of the |
| 22 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 23 | His mind concentrated itself on Tolby 's footsteps which were slightly uneven , as if the solicitor had a slight limp . |
| 24 | The successful Peronist in San Luis , incumbent governor Alberto Rodríguez Saa , announced his intention to present himself as a candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 25 | There are , even today , all sorts of varying views on Ken 's theatrical performances and how seriously he took his opportunities to rid himself of the cliché Kenneth Williams image . |
| 26 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 27 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 28 | I noticed his comrades distanced themselves from him . |
| 29 | Or , finally , his failure to adapt himself in 1944 – 46 could be seen as the product of a genuine idealism . |
| 30 | His right to govern himself by his own vote , which he had fought for and wrestled from the grip of the landed gentry himself only ten years ago . |