Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 2 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 3 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 4 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 5 | The new York Times declared that in his White Revolution he had " aligned himself directly with the workers and peasant against conservatives and traditionalists " . |
| 6 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 7 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 8 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 9 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 10 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 11 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 12 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 13 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
| 14 | To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate . |
| 15 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 16 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 17 | One moment he had thought himself alone amongst the greenery and the next he was staring into grey gaunt features closely framed by a tiny skylight in the angle of the roof . |
| 18 | Despite our beliefs , pain has undermined his strength , he is not undefeatable , God has had his way , if he ever lost it , and Satan has not just fallen , from Heaven to Hell , but has buried himself further into the pit , he has fallen further in trying , once again , to achieve greater height than he deserved . |
| 19 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 22 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
| 25 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 26 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 27 | He had settled himself comfortably on the floor , to the astonished glances of some guests , her beautiful skirts rustling as he leant against them . |
| 28 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 29 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 30 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |