Example sentences of "himself [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 18 | Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Trent swung himself over to the settee so that she would n't have to shout . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Spitting out a gobbet of blood , he dragged himself over to the window , to look down on the devastation below . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cornelius took himself off to the telephone box . |
| 27 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 28 | After two months she loosened her grasp on the subject like a drowning man giving himself up to the sea . |
| 29 | He was content to give himself up to the occasion , similar to others he had described in his own books but none of which had ever seemed to possess the colour , the noise , the smell , the sheer vibrancy that was before him now . |
| 30 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |