Example sentences of "[verb] himself [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 2 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 3 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 4 | Duncan let himself out of the car as Myeloski walked round to him . |
| 5 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 6 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 7 | He listened before he let himself out of the cellar , but there still seemed to be nobody around ; Reynolds felt gritty and smeared , at an unhappy disadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation . |
| 8 | Daniel levered himself out of the sofa and stood up . |
| 9 | In the opening sequence the Poet is so concerned with the Friend and his future existence that he seems to write himself out of the picture . |
| 10 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 11 | The much-travelled Allison , 65 , coaching consultant and now caretaker-manager of Division One 's bottom club , immediately ruled himself out of the job full-time . |
| 12 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 13 | Another senior Democrat , Senator John " Jay " Rockefeller , ruled himself out of the contest on Aug. 7 . |
| 14 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 15 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 16 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 17 | Put himself out of the reach of Dr Ali , the Twenty-fourthers and everything else in the school . |
| 18 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 19 | Erlich let himself out of the room . |
| 20 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 21 | Eventually , Joicey cornered him , and in desperation , the keeper threw himself out of the nearest open window ; landing ten feet below , with a badly sprained arm and sore head . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ Denis barked back — and then , forcing himself out of the nightmare of his paralysis , he added : ‘ Not yet . ’ |
| 23 | She watched as the man swung himself out of the car . |
| 24 | Whittingham joined Pompey four years ago after buying himself out of the Army for £450 . |
| 25 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 26 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 27 | We recall that in the notebooks Dostoevsky has Raskolnikov reflect upon his crime and declare he had to commit it to achieve moral development and get himself out of the mess he was in . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 29 | Fernando pulled himself out of the pool to sit on the edge to watch her . |
| 30 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |