Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the needs of his body , so long suppressed , caused him to avail himself of her a second time , and towards the end he felt himself impregnate her . |
| 2 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 3 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 4 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
| 5 | Cressy had been moored at Tardebigge for four years while Rolt undertook various forms of engineering war-work , but when peace returned he threw himself into the task of preserving the canal system . |
| 6 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 7 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 8 | She felt him gather himself like a beast on the powerful springs of its limbs . |
| 9 | ‘ When he was here , did he make himself at home ? ’ |
| 10 | The Legal Adviser was not pensioned off , neither did he take himself to Malta . |
| 11 | Absurd , of course , but then the question emerges : Did he allow himself to be used ? |
| 12 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 13 | Nor did he introduce himself to Ellen or Thessy , but instead looked warily up into the rigging as though he expected to be ambushed from the foremast 's crosstrees . |
| 14 | Rain left him supporting himself against a table as she fetched her shoulder bag . |
| 15 | How had he allowed himself to be landed with such a sickly , dependent boy , but Willie was sick with excitement , not fear . |
| 16 | As the front door closed he pulled himself from the sofa and watched her drive away . |