Example sentences of "himself in " in BNC.
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| 31 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 32 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Placing himself in an illustrious line of critics he pointed out that the Pharisees did not escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue for their ‘ self righteousness ’ and ‘ judgemental ’ attitudes . |
| 35 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |
| 36 | Mr Romiti , the ruthlessly effective chief executive who was their main target , did not present himself in court . |
| 37 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 38 | Government reports assert that Captain Lorenzo hanged himself in his cell . |
| 39 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 40 | As a developing pianist in his teens , he soaked himself in the music of Mozart , Beethoven and , most of all , Elgar , with whose musical language he found much affinity . |
| 41 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 42 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 43 | It was Geordie , he was muttering out loud to himself in his strong Geordie accent . |
| 44 | If necessary he would walk to Lenin himself in Moscow . |
| 45 | The freshman soon made a name for himself in debates at the Union , which is the historic Cambridge debating society . |
| 46 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 47 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 48 | Charlie Mears does not express himself in Sanskrit , but the narrator of the text knows who will most appreciate Charlie 's story . |
| 49 | To obtain power by embracing darkness , Kurtz deified himself in line with primitive belief ; ironically , Eliot 's speaker dresses in relics of forgotten ritual out of a sense of total impotence , wishing to avoid a horrid dusk : ‘ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom . ’ |
| 50 | This seems to tie in closely with the Eliot who pronounced himself in 1928 ‘ to refute any accusation of playing ’ possum … classicist in literature , royalist in politics , and anglo-catholic in religion , The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay , ‘ Baudelaire ’ , where he sees Baudelaire 's Satanism as ‘ an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door . |
| 51 | As we saw there , Segal and Irigaray have recently elaborated this view , but its origins are clearly in Freud whose early case-studies , as Mitchell observes , originate the idea that ‘ the homosexual was choosing not another of the same sex , but himself in the guise of another ’ ( Psychoanalysis and Feminism , 34 ; see e.g. Freud , ix . |
| 52 | Once again , the male homosexual is someone who refuses to risk himself in relation to the other , but now the risk is not in relation to the opposite sex ( as in Scruton and Mailer ) , but to the same sex as rival . |
| 53 | We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party . |
| 54 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 55 | As in this passage , Genet not only disguises himself in terms of the law , but internalizes the disguise . |
| 56 | Badfinger had worked out of the studios but the main guy topped himself in 1975 ( to be followed by another in 1983 ) and Bill was left with a studio and no band . |
| 57 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 58 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 59 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 60 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |