Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 2 | RODERICK Newall , the former army officer accused of murdering his wealthy Scottish parents in the Channel Islands five years ago , has made a third attempt to kill himself in prison in Gibraltar , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 3 | Jilted lover shoots himself in Mercedes |
| 4 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 5 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 6 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 7 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 8 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 9 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 10 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 11 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 12 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 13 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action . |
| 14 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 15 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 16 | Jamie is not the type to tuck himself in bed early . |
| 17 | The anti-bloodsports campaigner threw himself in the Amazon 's path , brandishing his clipboard . |
| 18 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 19 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |
| 20 | Demidenko ( Hyperion ) is also highly individual , not to say idiosyncratic , even if his penchant for the mildly unexpected will not be to everyone 's taste , and Katin 's sensitivity and rare gift for sustaining a seamless melodic line ( Olympia ) is let down slightly by his converse reluctance to immerse himself in those many passages when the note-rate increases alarmingly . |
| 21 | Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? |
| 22 | As we landed at Cardiff , those in the seats closest to his party heard the Labour leader holding himself in check : ‘ Prime Ministerial . |
| 23 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 24 | The husband keeps himself in touch with his femininity as expressed by his wife ; she keeps herself in touch with her masculinity as expressed by her husband . |
| 25 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 26 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |
| 27 | If Burun 's refusal to place himself in a position of prominence by acting as Artai 's proposer was a subterfuge to disclaim his influence , then it was apparent that none of the Khans recognised it . |
| 28 | The container , on the other hand , with his tendency to dissociate , ‘ has an especial need to unify himself in an undivided love ’ , but finds the simpler personality of his partner does not complement and satisfy the diverse facets of his own . |
| 29 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 30 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |