Example sentences of "which he had [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 2 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 3 | The only appointment of significance which he had made himself was that of Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor , and that had been done only two days before the beginning of his holiday . |
| 4 | Nothing could lift his mood — not the fact that his supplier had managed to get his hands on a pirate video of the new Schwarzenegger , nor the really quite healthy profit he had made on the afternoon 's racing at York , nor even the fat Havana cigar to which he had treated himself . |
| 5 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 6 | The skald Thorleif Rauthfeldarson has him bloodying swords in England with God 's help , and he was eventually buried , perhaps first in York Minster , but later in a church at Roskilde , according to the Encomiast in a tomb which he had prepared himself . |
| 7 | The social worker who took on the referral found him somewhat embarrassed by his present circumstances , and the degree to which he had let himself go . |
| 8 | ‘ In the post-war years ’ , wrote Randolph 's son , ‘ Randolph remained for ever in debt because of his determination to live in the grand style to which he had allowed himself to become accustomed . ’ |
| 9 | But that matter of long ago , which he had persuaded himself he had cured by finally taking the maidenhead of Miss Emily Groundwater ; had all that been useless ? |
| 10 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
| 11 | He would gladly have died or suffered hardship or privation for the truth ; but endless wrangling and prevarication on both sides made him ill , and distracted him from the ends to which he had dedicated himself . |
| 12 | The bed was too short for him , an inconvenience to which he had accommodated himself by neatly sticking out his toes over the foot board . |
| 13 | He brooded glanced at his wristwatch then poured more coffee from a big silver-plated flask which he had installed himself . |
| 14 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 15 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |