Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 32 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 33 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 34 | Better , even , than he had made himself . |
| 35 | He turned to the entries he had made himself . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 38 | The solution suddenly came to him , and he had to control himself from shouting out " Eureka " . |
| 39 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 40 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 41 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 42 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 43 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 44 | ‘ He was a fine allrounder who , once he had played himself in , was delightful strokemaker , ’ Weir said . |
| 45 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 46 | Such solipsism came to him naturally , but he had applied himself to enhancing it as to an art of self defence . |
| 47 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 48 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 49 | It was a question he had asked himself . |
| 50 | He had heard himself squeak in a long-outgrown pre-pubertal voice . |
| 51 | He had shut himself within , and was not easily going to be drawn out again . |
| 52 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 53 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 54 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 55 | Somehow in the days they had spent together he had twined himself within her heart and soul so completely that there was no denying he was there to stay . |
| 56 | Before that night was out he had surrendered himself to Christ . |
| 57 | He knew , and again he had to force himself to face this point , that his escape itself was a dishonest one . |
| 58 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 59 | He had employed two extra assistants to keep the flies at bay , and he found he had to force himself not to hurry his craft , not to cut corners . |
| 60 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |