Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep . |
| 2 | Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows . |
| 3 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 4 | Huy felt anger rise into his mouth , but he made himself remain calm as he described the dead girl from the land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 5 | He made himself wake finally and lay under the covers feeling weak and hot , as though he had been spending energy incessantly all night . |
| 6 | He made himself levitate over the capital . |
| 7 | He made himself stare into the eyes in which , to his discomfort , he saw more pain than anger . |
| 8 | He made himself stop laughing and look stern . |
| 9 | Gerrard came back to the dais and held his hands up for silence , and though there was still a good deal of noise he made himself heard above it . |
| 10 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 11 | Since its appearance he had felt better , and he made himself pack and get ready for Glasgow , where he must find lodgings near the Cathedral . |
| 12 | He made himself remember the teaching , bringing coolness into his heart : all things have a natural cause which can be discovered . |
| 13 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 14 | He made himself say : |
| 15 | I said to old Tip , ‘ That 's Arnold over there , ’ and he made himself known to him . |
| 16 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 17 | He made himself look up . |
| 18 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 19 | He interrupted himself to explain , ‘ I did n't make any false promises or give her a lot of romantic fantasy to persuade her . |
| 20 | But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes , so he got himself born all over again . |
| 21 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 22 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 23 | At the second attempt , he got himself moving . |
| 24 | As the war ended he got himself married in Long Ditton , Surrey , to a girl named Madeline Fowler , daughter of George Fowler , a traffic manager . |
| 25 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 26 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 27 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 28 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 29 | She had , however , through the months of work , taken a real interest in what he was doing , and he found himself confiding in her more and more . |
| 30 | She looked back , her eyes wide , and he found himself holding his breath . |