Example sentences of "[verb] himself in the " 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 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 9 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 12 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 13 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 14 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 15 | Macarthy , the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable . |
| 16 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 17 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 18 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 19 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
| 20 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 21 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 22 | Jason , 24 , found himself in the north African city between concerts in Bournemouth and St Austell — two other places Bogart never visited . |
| 23 | The same year , he found himself in the company of Mona , who described herself in court as an ‘ apolitical pacifist ’ who spread her huge family wealth in a series of film , TV , stage and property ventures . |
| 24 | HAPLESS John Major found himself in the middle of an almighty Tory punch-up over Europe yesterday . |
| 25 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 26 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 27 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |
| 28 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 29 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 30 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |