Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 4 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 5 | His mother was watching the weather forecast on television when he let himself into the house . |
| 6 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 7 | Mr Duval then realised the power of international persuasion when he found himself among a group of prisoners who were finally released in 1976 as the result of pressure from Amnesty International and Jimmy Carter 's new US government . |
| 8 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |