Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] himself [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 2 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 3 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
| 5 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 6 | He 'd talked himself out of nothing . |
| 7 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 8 | He prepared to give himself over to whatever fate Lucifer had in store for him . |
| 9 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 10 | And then , purely on impulse , Cardiff heard himself ask a crazy question , but a question that was no crazier than the situation he 'd found himself in of late , with people who vanished into and out of walls , the hideous death of four people , three of them his own men and a stalking monstrosity from the pages of a horror comic out there somewhere in the night … not to mention cars that just fell out of the sky . |
| 11 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 12 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 13 | He began throwing himself about in his wild efforts to pop |
| 14 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 15 | He went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 16 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 17 | Directly below him was a wooden ledge , and by twisting himself around he managed to lower himself on to it gradually . |
| 18 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 19 | Unable to pass through the flame , he managed to cast himself back onto the side of the platform he had entered from . |
| 20 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 21 | First the terrified 15-year-old managed to turn himself round in mid-air . |
| 22 | By the time Daak managed to haul himself on to his couch , the floor was angled at forty-five degrees , and tilting faster . |
| 23 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 24 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 25 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 26 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 27 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 28 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 29 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 30 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |