Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln .
2 He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him .
3 Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’
4 A bullet cracked inches above his head and he flung himself behind a row of metal dustbins , the Browning clenched tightly in his hand .
5 Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name .
6 Marcus saw there was a strip of green tape stuck to the floor and he positioned himself behind it .
7 And when he met and married Nessie Monaghan , he was immediately aware , like any true artist , that she had the better natural voice and he contented himself with being a better-than-ordinary pub tenor and a hit at every christening , wedding and funeral he attended .
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