Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] himself [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 2 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 3 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 4 | He put his head out of the window and tried to clam himself by attempting to identify the night sounds . |
| 5 | John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that . |
| 6 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 7 | So , my friend in imitation of ‘ All hail Macbeth ! hail to thee Thane of Cawdor ! ’ condescended to amuse himself with uttering ‘ All hail Dalblair ! hail to thee , Laird of Auchinleck ! ’ ’ |
| 8 | Mait managed to calm himself after leaving the cell area . |
| 9 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 10 | He only managed to save himself from falling into the sea by putting one foot on either side of the doorway . |
| 11 | He bent double with the pain but managed to restrain himself from crying out . |
| 12 | James Paul was terribly hurt by the collapse of the N.D.D.S. and although he helped to establish the British Deaf and Dumb Association in 1890 , accepting the position of Treasurer in the first year , he preferred to devote himself to developing the social status and services for the deaf people of Ayrshire . |
| 13 | He liked to introduce himself by saying : ‘ My name 's Walter Hagen . |
| 14 | The solution suddenly came to him , and he had to control himself from shouting out " Eureka " . |
| 15 | Gavriil Popov , a leading campaigner for democratic reform , who had been popularly elected as mayor of Moscow in June 1991 and who had threatened to resign in December 1991 , resigned on June 5 , saying that he wished to devote himself to leading the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms ( an offshoot of the Movement for Democratic Reforms ) . |
| 16 | He had to stop himself from shouting aloud with pleasure . |
| 17 | Albert was the first to know the Mr Gregory had lost his seat but had to restrain himself from swinging from the Assembly Rooms chandeliers in celebration . |
| 18 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 19 | ( As we have already noted , Herod attempted to legitimise himself by marrying a Maccabean princess , then proceeded to murder her and her sons , thus extinguishing the Maccabean line . ) |