Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 2 | How about starting with a report on the Stuttgart Classic event where Goran really excelled himself with brilliant wins over Jim Courier and , of course , the out-of-sorts ( surely for the moment only ) , Stefan Edberg . |
| 3 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 4 | Last year , Amnesty mounted a huge campaign against human rights abuses in Morocco , and King Hassan found himself under increasing pressure to make some sort of response . |
| 5 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 6 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 7 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Dr Runcie , the well known Archbishop , found himself in terrible trouble when he obviously betrayed his feeling that the Argentinians were human brings in the Falklands memorial service . |
| 10 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 11 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 12 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 13 | In seventeen years as a schoolmaster , first at St Peter 's School , Galashiels , and from 1875 at Madras College , St Andrews , Lapworth became an expert on these fossils , the graptolites , and trained himself in detailed geological mapping and in visualizing the attitude and arrangement of strata in three dimensions . |
| 14 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 15 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 16 | That is absolutely incorrect , and I take it that the hon. Gentleman is dissociating himself from Labour Front Bench policy on the Maastricht settlement . |
| 17 | Thus , the chronic 20 cigarette a day smoker exposes himself to regular falls in gastric secretion associated with each cigarette smoked . |
| 18 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 19 | Taking orders without question removed the need to make decisions or involve himself with external matters . |
| 20 | The patient was shortly afterwards transferred to the National Hospital , but quite soon discharged himself against medical advice , evidently heedless of the fact that the Board had agreed to pay 2s.6d per day for his maintenance there . |
| 21 | Rufus holds himself within head-butting distance , and I guess he 's daring the man to spit in his face or something . |
| 22 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 23 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 24 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 25 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 26 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 27 | During the Second World War |
| 28 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 29 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 30 | After his retirement in 1974 he quickly involved himself in local community work in the church and will several charities . |