Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 2 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 3 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 4 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 5 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 6 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 7 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 8 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 9 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 10 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 11 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 12 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 13 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 14 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 15 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 16 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 17 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 18 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 19 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 20 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 21 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 22 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 25 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 26 | Pollock found himself as a painter during the 1940s . |
| 27 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 28 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 29 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 30 | He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia . |