Example sentences of "himself through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 2 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 3 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 4 | Picked up a revolver and shot himself through the head . ’ |
| 5 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 6 | Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick . |
| 7 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 8 | The wish for a ‘ god ’ may have been the unavoidable outcome of the fact that the developing human being , in his desire-motivated influence on evolution , had to reproduce himself through the mammalian process . |
| 9 | Quinn announced himself through the entryphone , aware he was being scanned by the overhead video-camera . |
| 10 | The lover of power is attracted to the viewpoint of the strongest , the one who can , even if he graciously refrains , force others to act against their wills ; he may himself achieve power , or fantasize it , or in consciousness of impotence prefer to look down on himself through the eyes of real or imaginary conquerors . |
| 11 | Police were called to the shop in Southampton after a passer-by spotted Urben lowering himself through the roof into the showroom . |
| 12 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 13 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 14 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 15 | Mosley consciously educated himself through the writings of Keynes , Hobson and other Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) theorists to become the most perceptive of all government critics actively opposing the consensus of economic policy-making in the 1920s . |
| 16 | On April 3 , 1915 , Stoddart shot himself through the head — the saddest of ends for such a famous cricketer who had brought much brilliance to the game . |
| 17 | Its system of display and retrieval must therefore be such that this kind of learning can proceed : that the individual user can , to a very great extent , progress himself through the various pathways to knowledge provided by the library , with the minimum of unnecessary difficulty and the maximum reinforcement . |
| 18 | Daak pulled himself through the crater in the top of the hull . |
| 19 | He slipped himself through the gap . |
| 20 | Their anxiety rooted Joseph to the spot for a moment ; then , desperate to make amends for his clumsiness , he flung himself through the doorway in pursuit . |
| 21 | Another stun grenade was thrown in and a third soldier hurled himself through the window after it , before it had exploded . |
| 22 | He leapt off a regular bus — the excellent airport service seems currently in abeyance , threw himself through the doors and yelled at me to hurry , which I did , and we caught the same bus back into town . |
| 23 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 24 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 25 | Sivarasan ( also known as Raja Arumainayagam or " One-Eyed Jack " ) shot himself through the head as police stormed his hideout in a suburb of the southern city of Bangalore . |
| 26 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 27 | Sam West , son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales , who also appears in the film , plays Leonard Bast who tries to improve himself through the arts . |