Example sentences of "himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 2 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 3 | The army Captain taught the Commander the knack of hoisting himself aboard a canoe over its stern , and how to vault astride one steadied by a paddler already aboard . |
| 4 | He broke himself off a thick stick from a tree behind him and looked all round again . |
| 5 | Pushing himself off the wall , he grabbed at it , missed , and nearly fell . |
| 6 | The patient is moved forward in the chair , and he holds his hands clasped together , to avoid the temptation of pushing himself off his chair , or pulling onto the other chair , which would throw him off balance and increase his spasticity . |
| 7 | The patient keeps his hands clasped together throughout the active parts of the transfer , so that he does not throw himself off balance by reaching out to grab the carer or the arm of the chair . |
| 8 | He swung himself off the bed and took off his pyjamas . |
| 9 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 10 | When Hank was fifteen , his best friend , Tommy Moore , committed suicide by quietly dropping himself off the railway bridge into the icy waters of the North Saskatchewan . |
| 11 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 12 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 13 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 14 | JOHN SCULLEY CROSSES HIMSELF OFF THE LIST |
| 15 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-system client-server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 16 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-platform client/server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 17 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 18 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 19 | First , the sight of one of the huntsmen galloping at full speed up the drive , over the bridge and in through the ornamental gates , throwing himself off his still cantering horse , and running into the house through one of the entrances below the main staircase . |
| 20 | Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door . |
| 21 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 22 | He swung himself off his horse and nearly fell , but managed to jerk his sword out of the scabbard . |
| 23 | George shrugged and nearly slid himself off the chair in which he was slumped . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 25 | To her intense disappointment , he groaned as one in pain , and dragged himself off her . |
| 26 | Swinging himself off the bed , Guy strode across the room . |
| 27 | Like Lucifer falling out of Heaven , he threw himself off the back of the pageant , not caring that the paving stones lay three leagues below . |
| 28 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 29 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 30 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |