Example sentences of "himself off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing himself off the wall , he grabbed at it , missed , and nearly fell . |
| 2 | He swung himself off the bed and took off his pyjamas . |
| 3 | When Hank was fifteen , his best friend , Tommy Moore , committed suicide by quietly dropping himself off the railway bridge into the icy waters of the North Saskatchewan . |
| 4 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 5 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 6 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 7 | JOHN SCULLEY CROSSES HIMSELF OFF THE LIST |
| 8 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 9 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 10 | Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door . |
| 11 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 12 | George shrugged and nearly slid himself off the chair in which he was slumped . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 14 | Swinging himself off the bed , Guy strode across the room . |
| 15 | Like Lucifer falling out of Heaven , he threw himself off the back of the pageant , not caring that the paving stones lay three leagues below . |
| 16 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 17 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 18 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |
| 19 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |