Example sentences of "himself towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Milord , milord , ’ he shouted , hurling himself towards the pair in the prow . |
| 2 | The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism showed Eliot again considering poetry 's primitive roots and to some extent consciously reorienting himself towards romanticism . |
| 3 | He drove himself towards her and grabbed her arm . |
| 4 | Simon launched himself towards the table and crashed both clenched fists down on its surface , making it rock dangerously and all the mugs and cans rattle . |
| 5 | He dragged his dead legs behind him , and pulled himself towards the battle . |
| 6 | He was badly shocked and in great pain but managed to steer himself towards a field half a mile from the parachute club at Brunton , Northumberland . |
| 7 | In skill training the opposite can apply , the trainee is persuaded to be flexible and to orient himself towards the end rather than the means . |
| 8 | Using his wings he begins to glide downwards , and by dropping one wing tip and then the other he guides himself towards the enemy army and his chosen target . |
| 9 | That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master . |
| 10 | My fear was further sharpened when Tooth , the only practising Muslim aboard , stiffly emerged from below wearing his black peci hat , and proceeded to prostrate himself towards Mecca at hours not prescribed by Islamic doctrine . |
| 11 | He sprinted desperately towards the plinth and , as the vase fell , launched himself towards it in a lunging dive . |
| 12 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 13 | He tried to resist the voice — to shut it out from his mind — to will himself towards his destination again — towards the light . |
| 14 | He parted some ferns so we could look back across the Paddock to the changing-rooms where the next toy soldier had just launched himself towards the Orchard . |
| 15 | erm just a word or two about the erm question of erm changes of rate and what was Darwin 's attitude himself towards this issue . |
| 16 | He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love . |