Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom .
2 One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it .
3 He tried to breathe slowly , calming himself as he waited .
4 I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings .
5 Then observing himself as he fluttered and flustered the teenaged Lara in a restaurant !
6 But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop .
7 ‘ Remember one thing ! ’ he said angrily , only just controlling himself as he held her by the shoulders .
8 She annoyed her father intensely by regularly wetting herself when he did not immediately attend to her .
9 She moved , placing herself where he had to look at her , Coffin was embarrassed for her .
10 NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated .
11 A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement .
12 the captain on the day was batting and batting and batting himself until he got to seventy
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