Example sentences of "he [verb] himself up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 3 | Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats . |
| 4 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 5 | He pulled himself up over the wall and disappeared . |
| 6 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 7 | He eased himself up on the pillow and examined the breakfast tray . |
| 8 | He heaved himself up from the kitchen chair and reached for his coat behind the door . |
| 9 | He sets himself up as the Father of the British Industry yet he does n't deliver the goods . |
| 10 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |