Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] himself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 2 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 3 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 4 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 5 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 6 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 7 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 8 | Across from him Chen busied himself at his wife 's side , preparing the meal . |
| 9 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 10 | In Cairo , Stirling based himself at the flat of his brother , Peter , who was an official at the British Embassy . |
| 11 | In imitation of Velasquez , Minton shows himself at his easel reflected in the mirror behind . |
| 12 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 13 | Adam flung himself at her , furiously snatching it . |
| 14 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 15 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 16 | GUIL stirs himself at last . ) |
| 17 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 18 | Mr Ali hurled himself at Conroy as he fired , hitting the shopkeeper and Navid , who had been watching TV . |
| 19 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 20 | Kathleen swallowed a lump in her throat , Ben coughed discreetly and Jack busied himself at the X-ray box . |
| 21 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 22 | Why should Billy put himself at risk for the sake of his hereditary enemies , whether he 'd helped to bring them up or not ? |
| 23 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 24 | Now to some , George Best telling Cantona to behave himself at Old Trafford is a bit like Stan Flashman lecturing on etiquette . |
| 25 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 26 | Twice , in the Miller 's Tale , we hear a cock crow , as Absolon presents himself at the " " shot-wyndowe " " of Alison 's bedroom ( 3357 , 3687 ) . |
| 27 | ALISTAIR PRESENTED himself at the offices of the TLM in an unblinking trance of punctuality . |
| 28 | Kellerman launched himself at Donna . |
| 29 | But Briggs found himself at odds with colleagues within the NASA scientific establishment . |
| 30 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |