Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exuberant man , nervous , poetic , with a way of pulling his long fingers one by one when something was making him laugh to himself . |
| 2 | Then I heard him mutter to himself : ‘ Avare comme tous les juifs ’ . |
| 3 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 4 | Let him look after himself . ’ |
| 5 | 28–8–1866 Norman McLeod , an Elder , had ceased to attend public worship for the last year and two other Elders were sent to find out why , " when he assigned as reasons several charges against the Minister , that his preaching was neither law nor Gospel ; that he considered him aiming at himself personally in his preaching . " |
| 6 | On one occasion my mother , Lady Ermengilde , found him muttering to himself , something about the same number Vechey mentioned — thirty-one . |
| 7 | A very different expressive effect is evoked by the bare infinitive be in the four examples of it found so far : ( 185 ) I could feel him fighting with himself … during all those afternoons … our wonderful afternoons of happiness ! … and I said nothing … |
| 8 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 9 | So let him talk for himself if he had anything to say . |
| 10 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 11 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 12 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 13 | Later he made to himself excuses for Eden ; that he left Durham young and that his childhood was unhappy . |
| 14 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 15 | So he points to himself nervously and says , ‘ No , I 'm James … ’ |
| 16 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 17 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 18 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 19 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 20 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |
| 21 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 22 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 23 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 24 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 25 | All the way back to the Franz Joseph he blustered to himself , justified everything he had done , and thought how dreary and provincial they all were . |
| 26 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 27 | And Crosby said : ‘ If he looks after himself he has a great chance . |
| 28 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 29 | He hummed to himself as they continued northwards . |
| 30 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |