Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] himself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 2 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 3 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 4 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 5 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 6 | ‘ Damn cheek , ’ he muttered , and hitched himself up onto the edge of the couch . |
| 7 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 8 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 9 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 10 | Newly appointed as Duke of Swabia , Frederick Barbarossa had an opportunity to mix with other nobles , and acquitted himself well in the crusade . |
| 11 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 12 | Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot , he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine 's cabin . |
| 13 | said Billy , and heaved himself out of the chair with difficulty . |
| 14 | Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day . |
| 15 | Gazzer lay face down on the bank and inched himself out over the edge . |
| 16 | He pushed hurriedly through the bar area and located himself directly beneath the mixing desk where , hiding shyly behind the cavorting dance floor bodies , he would attract the minimum of attention . |
| 17 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 18 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 19 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 20 | She was surprised to find that she was not at all self-conscious with him and she moved to nestle comfortably against him when he rolled away from her and propped himself up on the pillows . |
| 21 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 22 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 23 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 24 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 25 | In desperation , he gave one last , vicious backward kick and launched himself out into the dark . |
| 26 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 27 | He leant back and pushed himself away from the table , sliding backwards on the castors of his typist-style chair . |
| 28 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 29 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 30 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |