Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 2 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 3 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 4 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 5 | Where Federman and Sukenick have stressed the specifically linguistic dimensions to such disruption , Robbins once again casts himself in the role of entertainer , trickster and comic commentator . |
| 6 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 7 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 8 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 9 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 10 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 11 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 12 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 13 | Martin Pawley finds himself in the grip of museum culture |
| 14 | Moreover , everyone who holds cash or non-interest-bearing deposits in banks finds himself in the camp of the wealth-losing lenders . |
| 15 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 16 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 17 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 18 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 19 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 20 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 21 | The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer , in the authoritarian state . |
| 22 | He preens himself in the parade ring and believes everyone is there purely to watch him . ’ |
| 23 | The man thumps himself in the chest with one finger . |
| 24 | Mopsus , however , puts himself in the power of would-be benefactors , and his vulnerability is ruthlessly exploited . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 26 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 27 | He forgets himself in the feeding . |
| 28 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 29 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |