Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's livin' somewhere orf the Tower Bridge Road an' 'e 's got 'imself anuvver 'orse-an'-cart . ’ |
| 2 | 'E 's got 'imself in a bit o' trouble , ’ she said in a whisper . |
| 3 | Not only has he exerted himself tirelessly on teh College 's behalf but he has flung himself with similar enthusiasm into fundraising for the Prince 's Trust and for the Leigh City Technology School in Kent . |
| 4 | Marryat 's Percival Keene , writing a report to the Admiralty of an action in which he has acquitted himself well , sees his success realistically , while he is happy to acquire the reputation of a hero : |
| 5 | ‘ He has surpassed himself again and again , almost beyond belief , ’ said the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People . |
| 6 | He has deported himself with great dignity . |
| 7 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 8 | ‘ This is desperate attempt to crawl out of the hole that he has dug himself . |
| 9 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |
| 10 | Tore-Andre is in fact the most hunted player in Norway just now — this fall he has played himself into our succesful U-21 team and at the moment eight out of twelve norw. ‘ premiership ’ clubs are offering him a contract … |
| 11 | He has forgiven himself and others have forgiven him and he views life from a new angle , rebuilding it with a more solid base . |
| 12 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 13 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 14 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 15 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
| 16 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 17 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |
| 18 | Theologians often distinguish between God as he is in himself , and God as he has revealed himself to us . |
| 19 | On his second voyage he sees the valley of the Diamonds ( CS 1 ; PFI 10 ) , and is carried through the air by a roc , a gigantic bird to whose feet he has tied himself while it is sleeping ( CS 15 ; PFI 10 ) . |
| 20 | He has made himself appear a poodle of the executive . ‘ |
| 21 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 22 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 23 | Alistair erm he 's , he 's made himself er he has made himself coordinator . |
| 24 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 25 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 26 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 27 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 28 | He tells his mother he has cut himself to explain the blood on his jeans . |
| 29 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 30 | You might even find that the lecturer 's blackboard work was straight out of a textbook , perhaps one that he has written himself . |