Example sentences of "man [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the man stabbed himself to death . |
| 2 | A young man placed himself between the shafts of the trap and prepared to pull his passengers round the village , but not before the publican had been fined a barrel of beer for speaking at the same time as the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ . |
| 3 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 4 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |
| 5 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 6 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Thus , the world and man reveal themselves by undertakings . |
| 8 | A poor man believed himself to be possessed by many devils . |
| 9 | But they were kind : the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort , the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking . |
| 10 | While Jackson and Dixon were performing regularly in the English rings , a black man distinguished himself on the track . |
| 11 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 12 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 13 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
| 14 | Edward was hobbling to a Humber and the little man detached himself from it and came to him . |
| 15 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 16 | One afternoon , as I walked under the tall arches of the Palazzo della Pilotta , the immense , pale-pink building constructed in the time of the Farnese with millions of thin bricks , a fat middle-aged man exposed himself to me . |
| 17 | And getting to it can mean one man hauling himself through a two-foot tunnel for half an hour in six inches of water . |
| 18 | How could a man join himself to God 's creation again ? |
| 19 | On the basis of the principle of identity on the other hand , no subjection of nature can take place , since man identifies himself with the processes of nature . |
| 20 | The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer , in the authoritarian state . |
| 21 | The man thumps himself in the chest with one finger . |
| 22 | Whatever else he might be , instinct told her Nicolo Sabatini was not a man to force himself on a woman . |
| 23 | A big young man uncurled himself from the driving seat , stretched to his full six feet two , and yawned . |
| 24 | As they marched through the empty streets , however , a little old man put himself in front of the marching column and led the way , beating a kettle-drum and pronouncing the restoration of the Company Bahadur . |
| 25 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 26 | But seven years later in 1935 , on the eve of the Italian invasion , while the war drums were beating outside the palace to summon the nation to war , an old man presented himself before the Emperor . |
| 27 | One man identified himself as a jobbing builder and chatted to the woman , who was in her seventies , while another searched the house in Brougham Street , Darlington , on Tuesday . |
| 28 | As it becomes increasingly unacceptable for the man to remove himself to the predominantly adult male preserve of the pub , leaving wife and children at home , it becomes imperative for outlets to be found which can cater to the demands of the whole family . |
| 29 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |
| 30 | The truly empathetic New Man positions himself by the head of his partner 's bed , knows when to go for a walk in the park and , reverting to a traditional male role , protects the woman from unwanted intruders . |