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Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson .
10	Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar .
11	Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern .
12	James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford .
13	He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about .
14	He needed to support himself on the bannister .
15	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 .
16	He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track .
17	As he pushed the calf 's head towards the udder he spat to rid himself of the polluting sight of birth .
18	His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died .
19	He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier .
20	His plan for a metropolitan see at London had been stillborn but he had rid himself of the problem of Lichfield ( a process completed by 803 ) , successfully confounded his enemies and consolidated the position Offa had established at the height of his power .
21	By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry .
22	There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell .
23	For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment .
24	He had pushed himself to the limit .
25	He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before .
26	Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase .
27	As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were .
28	If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster .
29	When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected .
30	In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy .