Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disciplines himself to at least two hours a day in his upstairs studio where he also produces screen printing , water colours and acrylics . |
| 2 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 3 | He manifests himself to each of us uniquely . ’ |
| 4 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 5 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 6 | Eduard Trier chose to illustrate this figure in Form and Space , in which he limits himself to two observations : it is a product of refined artificiality ( in comparison with the elemental force of Marino Marini 's sculpture ) , and the girl ( in comparison with a figure by Marcello Mascherini ) is ‘ more reserved , displays a leisurely elegance in her arrested dance step ’ . |
| 7 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 8 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 9 | He shows himself to be here , as he did in his earlier Deconstruction : Theory and Practice , an admirably lucid and urbane expositor of difficult ideas . |
| 10 | In respect of God 's being , the fundamental axiom with which Barth works is that God is ‘ eternally and antecedently in himself ’ what he shows himself to be in Jesus . |
| 11 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 12 | Left to his own reflections , he reveals himself to be a bright , keen opportunist . |
| 13 | In his introduction , he reveals himself to be only too aware of the ‘ complex transactions between past and present ’ in which he is involved . |
| 14 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 15 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 16 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 17 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 18 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 19 | In B151 he compares himself to Christ even in the matter of his lunacy : |
| 20 | ‘ He keeps himself to himself . |
| 21 | ‘ He keeps himself to himself , that one , ’ Claudette added . |
| 22 | He keeps himself to himself , he likes kids and is kind to animals . |
| 23 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 24 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 25 | What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability . |
| 26 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 27 | October in which he confines himself to saying : ’ I believe that the Scottish interests will be dealt with appropriately . ’ |
| 28 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 29 | He attaches himself to his peasant roots by blaming the Jews . ’ |
| 30 | He feels himself to be privileged . |