Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , dear me , ’ he said , standing back from the window and dusting himself down , wiping his face with a handkerchief . |
| 3 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’ |
| 5 | Surrounded by the others who made a protective wall between him and the rest of the passengers , he stood there brushing himself down . |
| 6 | The PLAYER stands up , brushing himself down . ) |
| 7 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
| 8 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 9 | By the terms of his enrolment , there is little doubt that the provision of regular review assessment panels helped him by offering support , encouragement and occasionally chastisement for letting himself down . |
| 10 | There was a rope around his waist and he was letting himself down , hand over hand . |
| 11 | He 's apologizing to himself , for letting himself down . |
| 12 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ he said , flinging himself down into a chair behind it . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , swinging himself down beside her . |
| 14 | After washing himself down he shaved , trimmed his moustache , brushed his teeth , gargled and then greased and combed his hair . |
| 15 | He 's always playing himself down . |
| 16 | The anxious individual becomes an expert at putting himself down . |
| 17 | He was already inside and sitting himself down by the time I spoke . |
| 18 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 19 | He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . ’ |
| 20 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 21 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 22 | ‘ You were bloody magnificent , Tommy , ’ said Charlie , throwing himself down by his side . |