Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 2 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 3 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 4 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 5 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 10 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 11 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 12 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 13 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 14 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 15 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 17 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 18 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 19 | And Lyle believes he is ready to impose himself in the Majors . |
| 20 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 21 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 22 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 23 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 25 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 26 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 27 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 28 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 29 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 30 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |