Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 2 | Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where . |
| 3 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 4 | Desperately he hauled himself along the cliff face , right leg dragging over rocks , waterfalls bucketing their charge of stones and gravel on his head . |
| 5 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 6 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 7 | Riding , she had noticed how straight he held himself in the saddle , how unruffled he had been when leading his horse across a fast-flowing stream , how easily he brought his mount to jump a wall ; as though he were part of the animal he rode . |
| 8 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 9 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 10 | At times he felt tender and protective towards her , but sometimes he surprised himself by the hatred he felt for her , because she was healthy and free and had no need of him . |
| 11 | Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick . |
| 12 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 13 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 14 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 15 | Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond . |
| 16 | Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400 , and walked out jauntily . |
| 17 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 18 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
| 19 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 20 | Without being aware of getting there he found himself outside the printer 's shop . |
| 21 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 22 | Again he pressed himself against the wall and peered cautiously into the hall . |
| 23 | Hastily he dried himself on the thin towel and clambered into clothes that stuck to every inch of his damp body . |
| 24 | Gently but firmly he asserted himself in the organization . |