Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He had to go himself . ’ |
| 3 | He had taught himself shorthand and then taught the subject to others . |
| 4 | He had taught himself to sleep in brief snatches . |
| 5 | Therefore , if he had killed himself , he must have either climbed over or through the barrier somewhere near this point . |
| 6 | Either he had gone to ground very effectively and was in hiding , or — and this was a rumour that spread increasingly amongst the cast — he had killed himself . |
| 7 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 8 | At last he saw that , if he was ever to eliminate his old habits , then he must refuse to do anything at all until he had given himself the directions . |
| 9 | He had given himself up when he saw his photofit picture on BBC 's Crimewatch . |
| 10 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 11 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 12 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 13 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 14 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 15 | He had written himself |
| 16 | He had lost himself in her , and she had been willing to take him . |
| 17 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 18 | His plan for a metropolitan see at London had been stillborn but he had rid himself of the problem of Lichfield ( a process completed by 803 ) , successfully confounded his enemies and consolidated the position Offa had established at the height of his power . |
| 19 | He admitted that he had injected himself with speed two days before the police acted on the search warrant on January 20th . |
| 20 | For some reason , he felt he had to explain himself to this dark-eyed , intense young woman . |
| 21 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 22 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 23 | As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ . |
| 24 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 25 | Jim and Louise , however , had been forced to remain with their captor alongside the open trapdoor , until he had satisfied himself the coast was completely clear . |
| 26 | The black haven beneath the car was so small that he had to press himself hard against Nails . |
| 27 | Then , as if he had tormented himself beyond endurance , Luke ripped it clear , down past her waist and beyond . |
| 28 | Yesterday 's meat and vegetables had been high — soft and sweet with badness — he had made himself swallow it and then in the night the shite had poured out of him until he was too weak to stand . |
| 29 | He looked at her carefully to see he had made himself clear , then resumed his search through the file . |
| 30 | He had made himself prime ministerial : adopting double-breasted suits and gold-rimmed spectacles , shortening his sentences and restraining his instinctive jerks of the head . |