Example sentences of "[verb] himself [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 3 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 4 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 5 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 6 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 7 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 8 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 9 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 10 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 11 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 12 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 13 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 14 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 15 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 16 | When war breaks out , he becomes separated from his relatives , but manages to survive the war by passing himself off as a German soldier of Aryan origin . |
| 17 | Then pulling himself up to a great height , he went on . |
| 18 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 19 | He shrugged , spreading his arms wide , then threw himself down upon a threadbare chaise-longue , his hands behind his head . |
| 20 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 21 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 22 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 23 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 24 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 25 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 26 | Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer . |
| 27 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 28 | And those loonies expect him to — ’ He cut himself off with a hard slap to the bald head . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 30 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |