Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 3 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 4 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 5 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 6 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 7 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 8 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 9 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 10 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 11 | He needed to support himself on the bannister . |
| 12 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |
| 13 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 14 | As he pushed the calf 's head towards the udder he spat to rid himself of the polluting sight of birth . |
| 15 | His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died . |
| 16 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 17 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 18 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
| 19 | Harassed by creditors , and pressed by the Treasury to render his long overdue chamber accounts , he fled to Hanover , where he attempted to ingratiate himself with the electoral family . |
| 20 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |