Example sentences of "[verb] himself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 2 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 3 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 4 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 5 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 6 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 7 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 8 | He had no desire to defeat boredom by provoking political excitement and keeping himself constantly at a stretch . |
| 9 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 10 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 11 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 13 | It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever . |
| 16 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 17 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 18 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 19 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 20 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 21 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 22 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 23 | Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose . |
| 24 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 25 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 26 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 27 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 28 | In the first called Ascot , Nielsen disguises himself cunningly in a hat that would have probably made Gertrude Shilling turn pale . |
| 29 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 30 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |