Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 2 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 3 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 4 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 5 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 6 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 7 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 8 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 9 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 10 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 11 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 12 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 13 | He tried to think himself into Tweed 's position : what would he do ? |
| 14 | He tried to think himself into a detective frame of mind . |
| 15 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 16 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 17 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 18 | He 'd schooled himself to ruthlessness , single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle , hacking at anything in his path . |
| 19 | He 'd locked himself in their room and drunk himself insensible . |
| 20 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 21 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 22 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 23 | He 'd helped himself to Miss Lodsworth 's cider apples . ’ |
| 24 | His car was still outside ; it was the open-top Volkswagen Beetle he 'd bought himself on that first day straight from the showroom window . |
| 25 | He 'd got himself into enough trouble already by doing too much of that . |
| 26 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 27 | With a sinking feeling she knew what he meant — he had no intention of telling his brother how he 'd got himself into this situation . |
| 28 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 29 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 30 | He played no part in the newly founded Royal Society or the College of Physicians , although at this time he began to describe himself as an ‘ MD ’ . |