Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] himself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 2 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 3 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 4 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 5 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 8 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 9 | He responded to an imperative summons with an ill grace , and presented himself in the drawing-room of Rose 's hired house in a mood of ill-concealed annoyance . |
| 10 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 11 | ‘ And have n't you heard the Scriptures saying that a man should tie a millstone round his neck and throw himself in the sea sooner than abuse a little child ? ’ |
| 12 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Dougal sat in the armchair and wrapped himself in the duvet . |
| 15 | Mr Clinton this week temporarily abandoned his cosy , common touch and wrapped himself in the full trappings of the presidency . |
| 16 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 17 | Saunderson left school to go to a nearby college , and immersed himself in the local house scene , deejaying and doing one-off parties . |
| 18 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |