Example sentences of "[verb] myself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 32 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 33 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 34 | Tourists clicked away with cameras as I hauled myself inelegantly over the top . |
| 35 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 36 | I crossed behind her , and seized a pair of steps , used to reach the higher shelves ; I dragged the steps to the middle of the room , climbed them , swung myself up through the skylight by which the monster had entered . |
| 37 | ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’ |
| 38 | The moment passed and I slowed quickly , dropping to a trot as I approached the Bomb Circle , almost staggering into it , then flinging myself on to the sand inside to lie panting , heaving , gasping , staring at the grey sky and invisible drizzle , spread-eagled in the centre of the rocks . |
| 39 | I dolled myself up after the bath . |
| 40 | Another goal I thought was certain was Wallace 's solo run on the keeper ( I was the one hoisting myself up on the terrace barrier screaming as it happened ) coming in on his right . |
| 41 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 42 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 43 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 44 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 45 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 46 | For me , privacy was a rare commodity , and I had cut myself off from the subculture which had once sustained me — only to find that there was nowhere else to go . |
| 47 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 48 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 49 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |
| 50 | That 's the only thing I use to think myself back into the past . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |
| 52 | I can cover the issue by associating myself wholly with the speeches by my hon. Friends the Members for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) and for Crawley ( Mr. Soames ) , who said precisely what I think . |
| 53 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 54 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 55 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 56 | I push myself off from the wall and walk across . |
| 57 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 58 | I tried to kill myself twice in the space of ten days , |
| 59 | I grabbed my dressing gown and propelled myself downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 60 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |