Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] [prep] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 2 | Le Page and Tabouret-Keller write : As the individual speaks he [ sic ] is seen as always using language with reference to the inner models of the universe he has constructed for himself ; he projects in words images of that universe ( or , of those universes ) on to the social screen , and these images may be more or less sharply focussed , or more or less diffuse , in relation to each other or in relation to those projected by others in their interaction with him … |
| 3 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 4 | It is this in fact that makes it possible to speak of man as a sinner , deserving judgement , because he is capable of guilt and bears responsibility for what he has made of himself ; and precisely here lies the point upon which God 's grace in Jesus Christ comes to bear . |
| 5 | He came up with a system that he has named after himself , ‘ nanbudo ’ ( ‘ way of Nanbu ’ ) . |
| 6 | ‘ He has done for himself now ’ I finally said as we came down through Grasmere to get some transport back to our room . |
| 7 | This doom he has brought upon himself ; in order to avoid seeing one thing he has , almost voluntarily , incapacitated himself from seeing at all . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps his almost immediate resignation reflects the embarrassment which he has brought upon himself . |
| 9 | What a superb role he has invented for himself , the English gentleman who stands disdainfully aside from the vulgar squabbles of this Latin rabble to whom he has the misfortune to be related ! |
| 10 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 11 | It was something at work , or some other woman , or some painful inadequacy he 'd discovered in himself , but he was blaming me . |
| 12 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |
| 13 | He 'd said to himself as he walked away with it that all along the act had been a load of rubbish . |
| 14 | If he 'd looked after himself , not had a heart attack , he 'd still be around . |
| 15 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 16 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 17 | It is plain from his private correspondence that , even if he had discovered by himself the mechanism by which species diverge , he had no intention of publishing until after his death . |
| 18 | He thought wistfully of the studio he had created for himself so laboriously in The Hague , only to abandon it . |
| 19 | He had debated with himself whether he could not stop the treatment by now ; he had had no trouble for some time , only the occasional itching and , once , a slight rash . |
| 20 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 21 | It was a pact he had made within himself , and with those powers , if they existed , known as Callanish . |
| 22 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 23 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 24 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 25 | Images of guilt , of fear , of the excruciating headaches he had inflicted on himself which only the doctor could hold in check . |
| 26 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 27 | The glance had told her nothing except that he had retreated into himself again . |
| 28 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |
| 30 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |