Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 2 | He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity . |
| 3 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 4 | His aim , in fact , as he freely admitted , was to forget himself in his work . |
| 5 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 6 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 7 | He was dealing himself in too much . |
| 8 | Now , in accepting Tully 's offer , the defendant was not protecting his master 's interests … [ he ] was placing himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interests between him and his principal and he was looking after his own interests to the detriment of his master 's interests . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 10 | This is precisely the question which Eliot was to ask himself in his drama . |
| 11 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 12 | Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost . |
| 13 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |