Example sentences of "himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pushing himself off the wall , he grabbed at it , missed , and nearly fell . |
| 3 | He swung himself off the bed and took off his pyjamas . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | JOHN SCULLEY CROSSES HIMSELF OFF THE LIST |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 11 | Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | George shrugged and nearly slid himself off the chair in which he was slumped . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Swinging himself off the bed , Guy strode across the room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |
| 20 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And he did n't deceive himself about the nature of her hold on him . |
| 23 | The Captain had as good as said the same himself about the traces of lamb 's meat in the truck . |
| 24 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 25 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 26 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 27 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 28 | But the T'ang had kept his thoughts to himself about the killing . |
| 29 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 30 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |