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

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1	Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room .
2	It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process .
3	Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in .
4	His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops .
5	But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London .
6	He dumped himself in the battered armchair and watched her , chatting cosily the while .
7	Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past .
8	Having given up racing , he kept himself in the thick of things through his Goodyear racing-tyre distributorship and by opening a racing school at Riverside .
9	If he boldly avowed his real purpose thus publicly , he put himself in the wrong , and his cause past any help from the law , which would tamper here in the march only on unassailable grounds .
10	This may have contributed to the vigour with which he immersed himself in the growing student unrest that was a feature if the political upheavals of the time .
11	He recognized himself in the main character .

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