Example sentences of "[vb past] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 2 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 3 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 4 | He made the mistake of following the thread of foaming water with his eyes , and jerked himself back just in time . |
| 5 | The Admiral jerked himself back into consciousness of his surroundings . |
| 6 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 7 | Alan not only created himself , but also his own world in which to live . |
| 8 | Filled with unusual trees and shrubs , dropping down to a stream the Professor created himself , the garden flows softly and naturally between their home , Vine House , built in 1725 , and the 18th-century park of Blaise Castle , laid out by Repton , which lies adjacent . |
| 9 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |
| 10 | That the real Mathew Bryce cut up a girl , then torched himself ? |
| 11 | If it was contradictory to say that he was ready to go to another woman so soon after declaring Kee to be the one ‘ and no other ’ , very well then , he contradicted himself . |
| 12 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 13 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 14 | Vologsky rallied himself . |
| 15 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 16 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 17 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |
| 18 | How about starting with a report on the Stuttgart Classic event where Goran really excelled himself with brilliant wins over Jim Courier and , of course , the out-of-sorts ( surely for the moment only ) , Stefan Edberg . |
| 19 | The keeper excelled himself to keep out an Elliott header , but he was stranded again in injury time when Loram fired in a precise 25yarder which went in off the post . |
| 20 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 21 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 22 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 23 | Henry found himself next to the |
| 24 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 25 | He was unaware of any high ‘ g ’ or , indeed , of anything at all , until he found himself regaining consciousness in a near vertical climb , about to tail slide . |
| 26 | Cameron found himself saddened and frustrated by the episode at the McCullochs ' — it brought the dilemma of the movement to a point . |
| 27 | Cameron was sincerely amused — he found himself weirdly untroubled , as though he was watching a fantasy unfolding in which he was barely implicated . |
| 28 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 29 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 30 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |