Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at Uncle Albert 's , Gedanken searched the fridge for a Coke ; he made himself a coffee . |
| 2 | He made himself a cup of coffee and then , feeling deflated and not a little depressed , went to bed . |
| 3 | He made himself a cup of instant coffee and two slices of toast . |
| 4 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 5 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 6 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 7 | He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ? |
| 8 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 9 | No longer need he consider himself a charlatan , an impostor . |
| 10 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 11 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 12 | Then he spilled himself a puddle of wine and , dipping one gloved finger in the puddle , drew a plan of his mother 's estate-village in relation to the deserted plague village . |
| 13 | He believed himself a near-monster , a deformity , a half-Human creature born of a sorcerer 's mismanaged spell-weaving . |
| 14 | He allowed himself a smile . |
| 15 | He fetched himself a scotch from the mini-bar and dismissed the matter from his thoughts . |
| 16 | He poured himself a gin , sipped it , then added ice and tonic water as an afterthought . |
| 17 | He poured himself a drink . |
| 18 | And he poured himself a drink . |
| 19 | He poured himself a drink and then sat and looked at her . |
| 20 | Ronni followed him back into the sitting-room and stood awkwardly watching him as he poured himself a whisky . |
| 21 | He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it , selfconsciously , very aware of her sitting tensely beside him . |
| 22 | He poured himself a cup of coffee from his private flask and watched the white gulls lift and scatter against the dull grey sky . |
| 23 | He poured himself a cup of tea . |
| 24 | He poured himself a cup and lit a cigarette . |
| 25 | He poured himself a glass and led the way through to his large music room . |
| 26 | Yesterday , not content with turning England into a winning team and making the highest Test score of the modern era , he threw himself the ball — and removed the dangerous Sanjay Manjrekar with his third delivery . |
| 27 | In his speech he declared himself a runner . |
| 28 | He fined himself a week 's wages for joining in a shouting match with Linfield officials after Tommy Leeman was booked for a tackle on Lee Doherty . |
| 29 | Using all his cunning arts he forged himself a blade and wove it round with deadly enchantments . |
| 30 | Now he fancied himself a connoisseur of the smell , able to distinguish between its elements . |