Example sentences of "himself down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 2 | Jack came rushing down from his room on the top floor and threw himself down beside Bunty , cradling her head . |
| 3 | He flung himself down on my bed , trying it out in different positions . |
| 4 | He was built like a brick shithouse and he plonked himself down right in front of the stage . |
| 5 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 6 | The blanket had come unrolled and twice he brought himself down with it . |
| 7 | But he finally got there and settled himself down and lifted his baton . |
| 8 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 9 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 10 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 11 | After washing himself down he shaved , trimmed his moustache , brushed his teeth , gargled and then greased and combed his hair . |
| 12 | The anxious individual becomes an expert at putting himself down . |
| 13 | Then , very slowly , fearful of making the slightest movement that might start the surface on an avalanche course and himself down the incline , he stretched out his arm towards Sheila . |
| 14 | The chamber was empty so Corbett went straight to his room , threw himself down upon his cot and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 15 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |
| 16 | Jack hurled himself down and Ho followed . |
| 17 | Peter mopped himself down with his napkin . |
| 18 | He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . ’ |
| 19 | He came in on a boat , I suppose , and he plopped himself down and began making ukuleles , very good ones , and some fabulous guitars which are quite rare nowadays . |
| 20 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 21 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 22 | He brushed himself down . |
| 23 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 24 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 25 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 26 | He increased the magnetism of his boots to maximum so as to draw himself down . |
| 27 | Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
| 30 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |