Example sentences of "himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The army Captain taught the Commander the knack of hoisting himself aboard a canoe over its stern , and how to vault astride one steadied by a paddler already aboard .
2 While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake .
3 He broke himself off a thick stick from a tree behind him and looked all round again .
4 One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn .
5 He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-system client-server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications .
6 He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-platform client/server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications .
7 Pushing himself off the wall , he grabbed at it , missed , and nearly fell .
8 He swung himself off the bed and took off his pyjamas .
9 When Hank was fifteen , his best friend , Tommy Moore , committed suicide by quietly dropping himself off the railway bridge into the icy waters of the North Saskatchewan .
10 He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track .
11 However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager .
12 But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks .
13 JOHN SCULLEY CROSSES HIMSELF OFF THE LIST
14 Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle .
15 PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons .
16 Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door .
17 If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind .
18 George shrugged and nearly slid himself off the chair in which he was slumped .
19 ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor .
20 Swinging himself off the bed , Guy strode across the room .
21 Like Lucifer falling out of Heaven , he threw himself off the back of the pageant , not caring that the paving stones lay three leagues below .
22 He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him .
23 As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side .
24 Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her .
25 Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it .
26 He puts himself about a lot , tackles hard and works hard , ’ Bingham said .
27 I have no doubt that during the general election campaign the chairman of the Tory party will be spreading himself about a little bit , even though he has a tiny majority in Bath .
28 Afterwards , he ensured the men who had accompanied him to Scotland were well before sending Ranulf off to wash their clothes and busy himself about the abbey .
29 And he did n't deceive himself about the nature of her hold on him .
30 The Captain had as good as said the same himself about the traces of lamb 's meat in the truck .
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