Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 2 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 3 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 4 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 5 | As the god made no response Aenarion kept his promise and threw himself into the raging , white-hot inferno . |
| 6 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 7 | Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel . |
| 8 | Jack was coming towards her , and flattened himself against the other side . |
| 9 | Daak shouted , and flattened himself against the curving wall , pulling Ace with him . |
| 10 | But Jane insists she 's still a Gazza fan … and that no-one would be happier than her if he put his troubles behind him and established himself as the best , as well as the most talked about , footballer in the world . |
| 11 | D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end . |
| 12 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 13 | Recovering his balance with uncanny speed , he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim . |
| 14 | Mr Clinton this week temporarily abandoned his cosy , common touch and wrapped himself in the full trappings of the presidency . |
| 15 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 16 | Saunderson left school to go to a nearby college , and immersed himself in the local house scene , deejaying and doing one-off parties . |
| 17 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |