Example sentences of "himself [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches .
2 Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking .
3 Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her !
4 At any moment and with no warning he 'll throw himself on to the floor and do like a hundred push-ups .
5 Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully .
6 He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor .
7 Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa .
8 He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit .
9 Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat .
10 He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position .
11 Slowly he eased himself on to the side of the tub , drawing her down with him .
12 ‘ Milk , no sugar , ’ Graham said to Sabrina then eased himself on to the couch beside Kolchinsky .
13 Finally , after a comm-call to the Emissary brought Lord y'Fiprehaude himself on to the screen , to simper a confirmation , the warden grudgingly gave me clearance .
14 Lee flung himself on to the dog .
15 He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line .
16 ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’
17 Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute .
18 Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day .
19 He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest .
20 Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk .
21 There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble .
22 Hardly was he around the corner than the man in the parked car climbed out , crossed the road and let himself in to the apartment-block .
23 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 .
24 Trent swung himself over to the settee so that she would n't have to shout .
25 Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring .
26 Spitting out a gobbet of blood , he dragged himself over to the window , to look down on the devastation below .
27 In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it .
28 Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did .
29 You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them .
30 Cornelius took himself off to the telephone box .
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