Sentence examples for removed himself to from inspiring English sources

In 1946, after the success of "Animal Farm," and knowing that he was desperately ill with lung disease, he removed himself to one of the dankest places in the British Isles: the island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland.

For several months he was bedridden, and when at last he could walk again, he removed himself to Israel to escape the hunt for scapegoats that was in full swing under the new regime.

Asked if he was married, he responded, "Who'd want to marry me?" Alas, if only Mr. London had lived a half-century later and removed himself to Williamsburg, he might have enjoyed the same attention that Alex Williams received when he let his whiskers grow.

16th over of 32: Australia 56-4 (Smith 5, D Hussey 0) "As you watch more of the Twenty20 stuff than is probably good for you, are there ever instances when a struggling batter has removed himself to let the next one have a go," says Ian Copestake.

But that obstacle has been removed, or removed himself, to play casinos.

Rather fame-averse and a champion of innocence as his signature books show, he simply removed himself to a New Hampshire retreat and wrote more books without a plan for their publication.

Inept at business, he was forced to sell out and remove himself to another island, St . Lucia

After this, Palace advisers decided that Townsend, by now an equerry to the Queen, should be sent abroad and he was given seven days in which to remove himself to Brussels as air attache at the British Embassy.

He went on, "His attraction for a certain audience is that he uses a direct style of speech, removing himself to the third-person singular" — "Osama did not kill all those people" is a typical regular-guy feint — "and has a repertoire of references to early Islam, to scripture, to anecdote, and to poetry".

Soon after Urban VI had been elected pope in 1378, Robert of Geneva was elected as a rival pope, taking the name Pope Clement VII and removing himself to Avignon.

Ishii was interested in playing for the Mets, but removed himself from consideration to come to the United States, citing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.