Example sentences of "himself [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , if Qaddafi shows himself limited by this commonplace either-or , he has a decided advantage over West European or American anti-statesmen , who are generally at a loss to say how a society with only families will organize itself : what is to make the linkages among families ? — the market ? — a mafia ? — a telephone company ? |
| 3 | He thought himself tricked by Galileo 's artfulness . |
| 4 | Shamlou found himself irritated by his comrade 's gormless manner and unkempt hair . |
| 5 | He began to feel himself approached by God , and in the summer of 1929 went through a mystical experience . |
| 6 | So that when Von Lemke came to ‘ us ’ as governor and felt himself overwhelmed by ‘ our ’ troubles and scandal ; s , he had no toy-making to turn to , he had nowhere to go — his version of the abiding Dostoevsky extremity — and in fact he went mad . |
| 7 | The result was that on his arrival at Baden Napoleon III found himself surrounded by all the German rulers : the Kings of Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony and Hanover , the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxe-Weimar plus the Dukes of Nassau and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . |
| 8 | Richard had joined the birdwatching society hoping to make friends and been disappointed when the membership dwindled in consequence ; now he found himself surrounded by eager acolytes . |
| 9 | Cast ashore with his retinue in a storm , he found himself surrounded by a ‘ huge army of pagans ’ bent on plunder and murder . |
| 10 | No sooner had he received the sorrowful news of his father 's death , than he found himself surrounded by confusion , suspicion and intrigue . |
| 11 | As he groggily came round he found himself surrounded by three youths he thought were trying to help him . |
| 12 | Outside the dressing-room , Sharpe found himself surrounded by anxious staff officers who waited for Wellington . |
| 13 | In the Chief Constable 's view the use of force was ‘ fully justified ’ , believing himself surrounded by a criminally hostile population , with recent memories of the looting and disorder which had accompanied the police strike of 1919 in Liverpool . |
| 14 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 15 | The Shah saw himself surrounded by enemies . |
| 16 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 17 | The Bishop of Bradford , Coggan , was an evangelical with a quality then rare among evangelical leaders , namely learning , and was a likeable person who made himself respected by good sense at bishops ' meetings . |
| 18 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 19 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 20 | Leggott , dived to attack a Ju87 but was himself attacked by a Bf110 . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a comic article in The Studio this month , ’ he told her in July 1947 , alluding to the first full-length article on himself written by Bernard Denvir . |
| 22 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 23 | Forcing a litigant to settle with a judge who had usurped jurisdiction , in order to avoid still higher costs in a superior court , was not likely to have enhanced the popularity of the regality court of Glasgow , and , quite apart from the fact that he was himself injured by Sproull 's actions , Montrose had little choice but to remove the bailie-depute at the first opportunity . |
| 24 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 25 | He shrank against the wall , felt himself embraced by coats hung one atop the other in untidy layers . |
| 26 | The madrigalist John Wilbye [ q.v. ] dedicated one set of published madrigals to Arabella Stuart [ q.v. ] and the other to Sir Charles Cavendish , the earl 's younger brother , who was himself connected by marriage to the Kytsons , Wilbye 's patrons at Hengrave Hall . |
| 27 | In such cases the relation of husband and wife and the past indebtedness may put the creditor in such a position that , if he does not take care to fully explain the transaction , he may find himself defeated by proof that the wife did not fully understand it : ’ |
| 28 | He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence . |
| 29 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 30 | The diluting of the industrial strategy was a classic Wilsonian operation , as Bernard Donoughue remembers : ‘ I 'm sure that Tony Benn felt himself betrayed by his Prime Minister because the moment the word got around , as it rapidly did in Whitehall — and the Cabinet Office made sure that it got around — that the Prime Minister was not giving his support to Tony Benn , then the civil servants began to back off from their minister . |