Example sentences of "himself [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee flung himself on to the dog . |
| 2 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 3 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 4 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 5 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 6 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 7 | ‘ Milk , no sugar , ’ Graham said to Sabrina then eased himself on to the couch beside Kolchinsky . |
| 8 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 9 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 10 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 11 | At any moment and with no warning he 'll throw himself on to the floor and do like a hundred push-ups . |
| 12 | Finally , after a comm-call to the Emissary brought Lord y'Fiprehaude himself on to the screen , to simper a confirmation , the warden grudgingly gave me clearance . |
| 13 | Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa . |
| 14 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 15 | Slowly he eased himself on to the side of the tub , drawing her down with him . |
| 16 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 17 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 18 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 19 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 20 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 21 | Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk . |
| 22 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 23 | Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day . |
| 24 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 25 | Hardly was he around the corner than the man in the parked car climbed out , crossed the road and let himself in to the apartment-block . |
| 26 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 27 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 28 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |
| 29 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 30 | Trent swung himself over to the settee so that she would n't have to shout . |