Example sentences of "[verb] himself [adv] [prep] the " 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 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 6 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 7 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 8 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 13 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 20 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 23 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 24 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 25 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 26 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 27 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 28 | Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt . |
| 29 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 30 | Duncan let himself out of the car as Myeloski walked round to him . |