Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 2 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
| 3 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 4 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 8 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 9 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 10 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 11 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 12 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 13 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |