Example sentences of "himself through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 2 | The wish for a ‘ god ’ may have been the unavoidable outcome of the fact that the developing human being , in his desire-motivated influence on evolution , had to reproduce himself through the mammalian process . |
| 3 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 4 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 5 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 6 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |