Example sentences of "[verb] himself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 2 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 3 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 4 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 5 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 6 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 7 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 8 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 9 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 10 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 11 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 12 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 13 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 14 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 15 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 16 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 17 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 18 | Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime . |
| 19 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 20 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 21 | Once in New Zealand , Flanagan , the Home Missionary Advocate and Connexional Evangelist , found himself in a very different world from England . |
| 22 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 23 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 24 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 25 | That attitude rose to a crescendo when , at the age of 19 , or was it 20 ? he found himself in a dilemma . |
| 26 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 27 | He found himself in a room , at the end of which was a small counter with a piece of netting above it . |
| 28 | Duke William , essentially a warrior of the European mainland , found himself in a quandary : he must either renounce the claim or mount a once-for-all amphibious operation which would stretch his resources to the absolute limits . |
| 29 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 30 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |