Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 2 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 3 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 4 | Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing . |
| 5 | Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’ |
| 6 | Daak turned and hoisted himself into the speeder 's cockpit . |
| 7 | A searcher becomes a believer when he chooses and commits himself to the consequences of his choice . |
| 8 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 9 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 10 | Music had been important to her and the shelves held a catholic collection of records with which he could refresh or console himself during the two weeks ' holiday . |
| 11 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 12 | For all his wayward impulses and the much documented erraticism of his '80s career , this contradictory figure has — through cunning , imagination and sheer force of will — constantly reassessed and reasserted himself as the most focused member of the old guard . |
| 13 | Recovering his balance with uncanny speed , he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim . |
| 14 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 15 | He was going to spend the show hissing and flinging himself across the scaffolding arch which ran up the sides and across the top of the stage , and from which monkeys dangled , taunting Baloo the bear , who could n't climb and groaned a lot . |
| 16 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 17 | De Gaulle was perceived and perceived himself as the incarnation of both revolution and restoration . |
| 18 | Firmly , however , he regrouped and readdressed himself to the task . |