Example sentences of "[vb infin] himself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 2 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 3 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 4 | Typical of him , wrote a friend , was his willingness to ‘ clothe himself in the humility of a commoner 's gown ’ ( Oxford Magazine , 2 November 1917 ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
| 6 | First , however , he must prove himself in the hardest job of his life . |
| 7 | Will the Minister put himself in the place of that 15-year-old girl , too frightened to ask anyone for help , alone , desperate and penniless ? |
| 8 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 9 | He might lose himself in the books sometimes , but he might find the Key there , too . |
| 10 | He listened , but he did not involve himself in the affairs of his friends , except on the level of gossip . |
| 11 | Another who may find himself in the same situation will call upon all his inner resources in his efforts to deal with the problem . |
| 12 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 13 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |
| 14 | The embattled Premier will now find himself in the dock at Brighton . |
| 15 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 16 | There was no-one in reception , but if a stranger entered , he would soon find himself in the company of a gentleman in a blue suit with a friendly smile on his face and a bulge under his coat . |
| 17 | If he was n't careful he would find himself in the dungeon — or dead . |
| 18 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |
| 19 | But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye . |