Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 2 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 3 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 4 | Hauser prided himself on his ability to manipulate human beings . |
| 5 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |
| 6 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 7 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 8 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 9 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 10 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 11 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 12 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 13 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 14 | The barman reinstalled himself behind the jump and enquired after my pleasure . |
| 15 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 16 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 17 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 18 | His last book , Antonietta , published in 1991 , tells the story of a Stradivarius violin , and Hersey inserted himself as a character . |
| 19 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 20 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 21 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 22 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 23 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 24 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 25 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 26 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 27 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 28 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 29 | But come in out of the cold , ’ he said , seeing how the little priest hunched himself like a ruffled bird inside his gown . |
| 30 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |