Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Mr Fletcher sat at the table and Willie took one of the mugs and perched himself on the stool in front of the range . |
| 2 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 3 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next night he wore his leather jacket and warm boots and positioned himself near the field where the Charolais cattle grazed — the vantage point that Rose had used to watch Lowell 's cottage before she knew him . |
| 7 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 8 | Brundle is , however , merely warming up the brakes and tyres and re-acquainting himself with the lines of his old home track . |