Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 2 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 3 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 4 | When he finally wheeled himself into the Politburo meeting , all the others had arrived . |
| 5 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 6 | Perhaps he still identified himself with the man who bought a duffel cloak for Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) ; he instructed his daughter to buy the child a doll — ‘ only let it be a good big one ’ . |
| 7 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 8 | And so he always laid himself on the line . |
| 9 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 10 | Baldwin inclined to the earlier date , mainly because he always sustained himself throughout the wearisomeness of the political year by looking forward to a relaxed August and September . |
| 11 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 12 | He quickly established himself within the PAN , challenging its professional politicians with the support of his business colleagues and unifying the fractious party . |
| 13 | He quickly established himself near the settlement of William Tucker [ q.v. ] , who had married his sister Mary and brought over three of their younger brothers . |
| 14 | He once described himself as the ‘ grandfather ’ of that generation of Tories that includes Michael Forsyth and Michael Fallon , a phrase that embarrasses him now . |
| 15 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 16 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 17 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 18 | He also interested himself in the administration of this seat of learning , the colours of the students ' gowns — scarlet ; and the professors ' — black . |
| 19 | They tell me he near strangled himself with the bowstring when the stave snapped on him this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 21 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 22 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 23 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 24 | He even persuades himself of the splendour . |
| 25 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 26 | He almost threw himself across the van , grasping Kirov firmly by both shoulders . |
| 27 | Churchill indeed was so overcome with the romance of it all that he briefly reconciled himself to the departure of the British from his beloved India . |
| 28 | From the first he closely identified himself with the city , its people , and their aspirations in ways which helped to break down many of the prejudices of his people and their Presbyterian neighbours . |
| 29 | He firmly allied himself with the forces of change , but was careful to give due weight to the arguments for staying put , the detail in which he did this adding impressively to his reputation for grasp . |
| 30 | He certainly shot himself in the foot , pulling out of Glastonbury and playing Finsbury Park . |