Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] himself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 2 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 3 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 4 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 5 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 6 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 7 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thorfinn lifted himself in the saddle and saw men 's heads turn , and the flash of a spear to be deflected . |
| 10 | Rex adjusted himself in the driving mirror . |
| 11 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Melissa began , on a low note that she could hear becoming steadily more shrill , ‘ that after stabbing Angy , Barney locked himself in the bathroom and left her to die while he calmly washed away her blood ? |
| 13 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 16 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To explore the desert , Thesiger immersed himself in the Bedu way of life : he spoke Arabic , dressed and went barefoot they did , and shared the extreme hardship of their existence . |
| 19 | Caitlin poked himself in the chest . |
| 20 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 21 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 22 | Cornelius seated himself in an exquisite chair before a mahogany partners ' desk . |
| 23 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 24 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 25 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 26 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 27 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Fuming , Christopher shut himself in the house . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |