Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 2 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 3 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 4 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 5 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 6 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 8 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 9 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 10 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 11 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 14 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 17 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 18 | Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats . |
| 19 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 20 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 21 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 22 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 23 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 24 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 25 | He slotted himself in behind the steering-wheel , and started the car first time . |
| 26 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 27 | He pulled himself up over the wall and disappeared . |
| 28 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 29 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 30 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |