Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 2 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 3 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 4 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 5 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 6 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |
| 7 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 10 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 11 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 18 | This was the situation in which James Oswald of Dunnikier found himself in 1751 , when a chain of patronage was drawn back to him . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Piggott , 57 , found himself in all sorts of trouble on Martin Pipe 's 6–4 shot , who came from way back to take third place in the SIS Live Action Claiming Stakes won by Sarah-Clare . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 26 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 27 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 28 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 29 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 30 | Gesner waved for some coffee and helped himself to one of Stefan 's rolls . |