Example sentences of "[vb past] himself in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 2 | Bonhoeffer returned to Germany , but found himself in conflict with the mood of the times when identified with Hitler 's arrogance and brutality . |
| 3 | Subsequently he found himself in conflict with the local media when he tried to prevent Radio Vanuatu from reporting the views of his opponents . |
| 4 | Then he found himself in conversation with the Queen and the subject cropped up . |
| 5 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |
| 6 | During the round of visits to VIPs , Sir Patrick , former head of the British Diplomatic Service , found himself in conversation with the country 's head of state , President Elchibey . |
| 7 | Abruptly , Jack found himself in darkness . |
| 8 | In 1660 , Charles II was restored and Macleod found himself in prison , where he lay , without trial , for three years ; whilst his neighbour , Mackenzie of Seaforth , dismembered his estates . |
| 9 | Within a month of his return from London Gandhi found himself in prison , and for several years thereafter his bluffs were resolutely called . |
| 10 | Squeezing through a gap in the hedge at the bottom of Vic 's garden , Mungo found himself in front of the shed door which , together with the rest of the building , leaned to the left in its frame . |
| 11 | He found himself in front of the main station . |
| 12 | I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art . |
| 13 | When he found himself in front his main concern was not whether he might hold on to win but whether he would follow the right course . |
| 14 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 15 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 16 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 17 | Mozart increasingly found himself in need of fraternal charity : as his personal financial situation worsened over the next few years , he was obliged to turn to his brother-Masons for loans ( which , to their credit , were almost always forthcoming ) . |
| 18 | And thirdly his speed of play was fast and natural , whereas Timman found himself in time trouble on numerous occasions . ’ |
| 19 | In 1970 , his hard times continued : not for the first or last time in his career , he found himself in trouble with the authorities , being disqualified twice , once when he was winning and once when he was in second place . |
| 20 | In that war — as a young lieutenant , junior grade , in the Navy — Casey found himself in charge of the intelligence operations in north-west Europe of the Office of Strategic Services ; and spy-running , like venture capitalism , was in his blood from then on . |
| 21 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |
| 22 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 23 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 24 | Minutes later , Deputy Sheriff Cal Fenton found himself in charge of winding up the night 's operations , and responsible for getting the whole shooting match back to Rockford . |
| 25 | In 1668 he found himself in gaol once again , this time on a charge of disturbing the peace . |
| 26 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 27 | He only just stopped himself in time . |
| 28 | He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time . |
| 29 | He had nearly said stupid and stopped himself in time . |
| 30 | He was about to add that 's how the old man made all his money , but he stopped himself in time . |