Example sentences of "he [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 32 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 33 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 34 | He found himself able to distinguish the Manchester Corporation case [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 , by which he was technically bound , on grounds which I have to say I find unconvincing , as did Morland J. Browne J. said , at p. 178 : |
| 35 | Like all the teachers , I had a one-year contract renewable at Clive 's discretion , which in my case he found himself unable to exercise . |
| 36 | When Ivan III manoeuvred to undermine the security of monastic property — before most of his Western peers embarked on the same road — he found himself unable to do so . |
| 37 | But he found himself unable to say it , especially not to this so very obvious gentlewoman . |
| 38 | The eyes of four respectable women , bright with friendly interest , were looking eagerly towards him and somehow he found himself unable to explain that he had been making a study of extra-marital relations , detached and scientific though this had of course been . |
| 39 | Though his compositions won many prizes internationally , Tan says that gradually , he found himself unable to express his real self . |
| 40 | He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out . |
| 41 | When he had spent all his money he found himself alone and destitute . |
| 42 | Suddenly he found himself alone . |
| 43 | Everything was in shadow , for the tiers of gas candles — an excellent improvement , that — were dimming , slowly , slowly , taking the sight of his daughters and his wife away from him , so that he found himself alone , as he began to sing . |
| 44 | He is New York 's schools chancellor , head of the public schools system , and he found himself last week on public trial . |
| 45 | Rejected by the priesthood , he found himself unfitted in some way for normal life . |
| 46 | He counts himself lucky to have avoided being shot . |
| 47 | Harold Wilson convinced me I was wrong because he trained himself very , very well to be a pretty good television performer , and I think it is necessary for the Prime Minister . |
| 48 | As soon as I disappeared up the path , Poosie Nansie-wards , he promised himself one more cast followed by a quick canter to the bar . |
| 49 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 50 | He played himself all the time , using his characters to display his many theatrical talents . |
| 51 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 52 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 53 | ‘ Boris Nikolayevich … intends to act as resolutely as he showed himself capable of acting in the fateful days of August 1991 , ’ said spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov , referring to Mr Yeltsin 's role in thwarting a Communist coup . |
| 54 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 55 | He showed himself stubborn , resilient , conscientious , brave , and not devoid of humour . |
| 56 | He allowed himself one backward glance towards the estate , then turned his heels to the task of flight . |
| 57 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 58 | He cried so hard that he rained himself empty . |
| 59 | He slipped to fifth with just four laps to go , but miraculously , he hauled himself third place and hung on to win the championship by just one point . |
| 60 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |