Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He made himself a cup of coffee and then , feeling deflated and not a little depressed , went to bed .
2 Back at Uncle Albert 's , Gedanken searched the fridge for a Coke ; he made himself a coffee .
3 Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances .
4 He made himself a cup of instant coffee and two slices of toast .
5 Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed .
6 He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work .
7 As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago !
8 He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee .
9 He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside .
10 He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ?
11 He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background .
12 After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born .
13 Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm .
14 No longer need he consider himself a charlatan , an impostor .
15 In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench .
16 Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’
17 He proclaimed himself a devout servant of the God of Israel .
18 THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election .
19 He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti .
20 Then he spilled himself a puddle of wine and , dipping one gloved finger in the puddle , drew a plan of his mother 's estate-village in relation to the deserted plague village .
21 He believed himself a near-monster , a deformity , a half-Human creature born of a sorcerer 's mismanaged spell-weaving .
22 He allows himself a carefully selected smile , humorous , equal to equal , and goes on , the ease of his words belied by the hurry of his delivery and the force of his grip on her arm .
23 He allowed himself a smile .
24 He allowed himself a little smile , which vanished from his face when he felt the car slowing , and glimpsed through the misted window the place the facilitator had brought him to .
25 He allowed himself a faint smile of satisfaction then slipped the five-dollar note under Rosie 's glass and left the bar .
26 He allowed himself a slight smile .
27 He allowed himself a small , tight smile as she clenched her teeth and remained staring him full in the face , determined not to give him the satisfaction of accepting his subtle invitation to check his statement .
28 He allowed himself a faint , impersonal smile , then he stood up .
29 He allowed himself a small satisfied smile .
30 Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ .
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