Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadows leapt and danced away from the light as he fought to steady himself . |
| 2 | He liked the good life , lived to enjoy himself . |
| 3 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 4 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 5 | Bogie was given the chance to replace Paul Gascoigne at Newcastle , when Gazza went to Spurs , but failed to establish himself . |
| 6 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 7 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 8 | It could be quite disconcerting for the archer whose bow disintegrated to find himself left with a handful of bits and pieces resembling a bundle of firewood . |
| 9 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 10 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 11 | Carlson tried to steady himself . |
| 12 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 13 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 14 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 15 | The 27-year-old former Army officer tried to kill himself less than 24 hours before he was due in court again accused of murdering his parents at their home in Jersey . |
| 16 | He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself . |
| 17 | He tried to kill himself . |
| 18 | ‘ Who lives there in splendour so solitary that in June nineteen forty-one he jumped from a balcony and tried to kill himself . |
| 19 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 20 | Soon after the disaster he tried to kill himself . |
| 21 | Neil Todd 's parents called in the police after the teenager tried to kill himself . |
| 22 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 23 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 24 | He inadvisedly tried to launch himself very briefly in Hollywood . |
| 25 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 26 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 27 | He tried to pull himself forward , branch to branch , but with his hands bound , he lost ground each time he grabbed for a fresh hold . |
| 28 | He twisted to shield himself , tried to pull himself round and use that big machine-gun he had carried for so long . |
| 29 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 30 | He tried to pull himself together , but it was impossible . |