Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 2 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 3 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 4 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 5 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 6 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 7 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 8 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 9 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 10 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 11 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 12 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 13 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 14 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 15 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 16 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 17 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 18 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 19 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 22 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 23 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 25 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 26 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 27 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 28 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 29 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 30 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |