Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 2 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 3 | Not that his system was susceptible to such discomforts , but he fancied himself an empathic soul . |
| 4 | Despite his flight across continents , he finds himself an ‘ eternal witness to massacre ’ . |
| 5 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 6 | He promises himself an easier workout tomorrow . |
| 7 | He considers himself an expert on the subject now and confirms that what Horatia says is entirely possible . " |
| 8 | So he set himself an exercise . |