Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 2 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 3 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 4 | The owner , Petra Zuidinga prides herself in the decor which is her own design and you are guaranteed a warm welcome and comfortable stay . |
| 5 | In the closing minutes of the half Collins threw himself in the way of yet another Coyle attempt after dropping Marty McCaffrey 's free kick to keep his goal intact at the interval . |
| 6 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 7 | Martin Pawley finds himself in the grip of museum culture |
| 8 | ECHO chief photographer Stephen Shakeshaft found himself in the middle of a real cat and mouse game right in the heart of the city as he caught up with cartoon characters Tom and Jerry . |
| 9 | Bernice scrambled madly through the twisted wreckage as Anushkia Smyslov lost herself in the chaos , shouting orders . |
| 10 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey put himself in a self-conscious pose of memory , as if rehearsing for a television down-memory-lane programme . |
| 11 | Mrs Ridley settled herself in a green velvet armchair , laying her stick carefully on the floor beside her . |
| 12 | The troubled programme has been bedevilled by the tardiness of some countries in implementing the 278 proposals required to remove all internal frontiers to business , and Mrs Thatcher found herself in the slightly unusual position of being praised by Mr Jacques Delors , the president of the European Commission , for being in the vanguard of the reform process . |
| 13 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 14 | While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings . |
| 15 | We hear that during September , Pest Control Westminster found itself in an embarrassing situation of having under spent on its petty cash budget by 10% . |
| 16 | Then Mitch Cook flung himself in the way of a goalbound Gary Bennett drive after Rimmer had squirmed free down the left . |
| 17 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 18 | Old Ian Strachan locked himself in the bedroom with old Caroline Pickthorn , and old Peter Staithes pissed out of the window and threw empty bottles down into the basement area . |
| 19 | That is the real reason Strathclyde finds itself in the midst of the gravest financial crisis in its history — not the can pay , wo n't pay' Poll Tax rebels . |
| 20 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the unusual sight of Fru Møller stationing herself in the middle of the study and clearing her throat . |
| 21 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 22 | CHRIS EUBANK finds himself in a predicament after his successful WBO super-middleweight title defence against Ohio veteran , Lindell Holmes , at Olympia , London . |
| 23 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 24 | A FAMILY hooked on the ‘ whodunnit ’ board-game Cluedo found themselves in a real-life murder mystery yesterday … after stumbling across a skeleton . |
| 25 | Sir John Donaldson defended himself in a public speech saying that the court had not known that the assets had been earmarked for a political or any other purpose . |
| 26 | HAPLESS John Major found himself in the middle of an almighty Tory punch-up over Europe yesterday . |
| 27 | Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release . |