Example sentences of "then [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 2 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 3 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 4 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 5 | A market participant with no initial assets perceives the possibility of making large profits by buying up all the available supply of a given resource , and then establishing himself as the monopolist producer of a particular commodity . |
| 6 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 7 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 8 | The barbarian pulled himself to his feet and slung his treasure bags into a sack that hung from the saddle , then hauled himself onto the beast 's back . |
| 9 | He gave his brother a quick glance , then arranged himself in the most comfortable-looking chair in the room . |
| 10 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 11 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 12 | ‘ A Diet Cola if you have it , ’ Bernard replied then eased himself onto the stool beside Rosie . |
| 13 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 14 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 15 | The young CA apprentice travelled from London to Paris and then put himself in the hands of the International Brigades organisation for the final leg of his journey to Spain . |
| 16 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |