Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 2 | I hope they 'll pay the rent for him when he eventually finds himself out on his ear . ’ |
| 3 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 4 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |
| 5 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 6 | The wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at … |
| 7 | It 's a word that has an easy place in Justin 's conversation , and it 's pretty clear that , unlike most others in his profession , the wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at . |
| 8 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 9 | If we do n't get to him quickly he just tears himself apart . ’ |
| 10 | and when he just makes himself flop , he would n't stand up . |
| 11 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 12 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 13 | He himself does nothing wrong yet he still punishes himself for other 's wrong doings . |
| 14 | To add to his confusion , he still finds himself sat alone watching television and wondering where all these people are . |
| 15 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 16 | By leaving when he does , he still gives himself the chance of a second female but he minimises the risk of being cuckolded . |
| 17 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
| 18 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 19 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 20 | He also does himself no good by laying a prayer that has to be among the most bogus , ill thought out and badly argued measures to come before the House for many a long year . |
| 21 | Well I think old Steve , he thoroughly enjoys himself |
| 22 | He repeatedly expresses himself as awestruck by nature and by the contemplation of truth , and as having a , a desire to worship something outside himself . |
| 23 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 24 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 25 | He now has himself cast in the role of Satan , and I in the role of God Almighty . |
| 26 | But he was already looking ahead to this summer 's Ashes series against Australia and the country v county dilemma in which he now finds himself involved . |
| 27 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 28 | He really launches himself into and through the ball . |
| 29 | He really puts himself about . |
| 30 | He really enjoys himself and will happily stay on afterwards for drinks . |