Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pn reflx] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself some Ovaltine in the kitchen around ten-thirty p.m . |
| 2 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 3 | He played himself all the time , using his characters to display his many theatrical talents . |
| 4 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 5 | He poured himself some water from a chilled carafe . |
| 6 | He poured himself some wine and then , as if it were an afterthought , some for her . |
| 7 | He poured himself some coffee . |
| 8 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 9 | He poured himself some wine and went over to the fire to drink it . |
| 10 | He poured himself some amber liquid from a thick cut-glass decanter . |
| 11 | He poured himself another to keep her company . |
| 12 | He poured himself another glass of wine from the second , half-empty bottle . |
| 13 | He poured himself another , swilled it down with a grim smile and cradled the empty wineglass in his hands . |
| 14 | With a liberal hand , he poured himself another glass . |
| 15 | Then he poured himself another drink . |
| 16 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 17 | Then he continued to watch her as he poured himself more coffee . |
| 18 | This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later . |
| 19 | Now that his mind had been alerted , he examined himself several times a day and , when the discharge did n't go away , he decided to attend . |
| 20 | Howard subscribed to the contemporary theory that the disease was transmitted by vapours ( it is , in fact , caught by man through the bites of body lice ) and well knew how much at risk he put himself each time he entered the noxious cells . |
| 21 | He lit himself another cigar from the butt of the previous one . |
| 22 | One of Lewis 's more ambitious poems , ‘ The Jungle ’ , ends with a question — ‘ does the will 's long struggle end / With the last kindness of a foe or friend ? ’ — a question answered on 5 March 1944 when , hours before the start of his first patrol against the Japanese on the north Burma coast , he did himself that kindness with a shot from his own revolver . |
| 23 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 24 | The real Mr Barnet , of course , is Fry himself , who says he gave himself more chance of being hit by a sniper 's bullet than getting his job back . |
| 25 | Last night , he gave himself another opportunity to set the record straight with a gutsy 9–7 win against Scotland 's Alan McManus . |
| 26 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |