Example sentences of "himself [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 2 | The goalkeeper was also required to throw himself acrobatically to his left-hand post when a header from Ferguson off a Robertson freekick once again underlined his threat . |
| 3 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 4 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 5 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 6 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 7 | ‘ Just stand back , ’ he growled , as he lifted himself painfully to his feet . |
| 8 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 9 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 10 | Edward was in a foul mood , applying himself obsessively to his studies , encouraging no conversation . |
| 11 | Carson pushed himself blindly to his feet . |