Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 6 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 7 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 8 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 9 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | And Lyle believes he is ready to impose himself in the Majors . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 17 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 18 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |
| 19 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 21 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 22 | ‘ That would give him more confidence and he would be able to establish himself in the side . ’ |
| 23 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 24 | Right at the last minute , as the cameras were due to roll , the director spotted that Beesley had managed to insinuate himself to the ship 's rail ; picking up his megaphone , he instructed the amateur imposter kindly to disembark . |
| 25 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 26 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 27 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 28 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 29 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 30 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |