Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] himself [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now then , ’ he said , crouching under the eave and seating himself comfortably at the foot of his bed , ‘ what 's it all about , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | He had no desire to defeat boredom by provoking political excitement and keeping himself constantly at a stretch . |
| 3 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 4 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 5 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 6 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |