Example sentences of "now [vb -s] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now has himself cast in the role of Satan , and I in the role of God Almighty . |
| 2 | Incidentally , he has decided to ally himself with the more stable elements in his life , and now styles himself Roger Foxcroft . |
| 3 | Innocent had misjudged the character of Otto , as he later admitted in a letter to Philip Augustus : " If only , dearest son , I had known the character of Otto who now calls himself Emperor , as well as you … |
| 4 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 5 | Allan Lamb , the vice-captain , now finds himself short of a quorum for the easily-bored touring club , which usually takes the form of a private knockabout well out of earshot of Micky Stewart . |
| 6 | Mr Wilson now finds himself declaring his belief that it was ‘ the conduct of Sir Johannes and his cronies ’ which discredited the honours system , not the granting of the original accolade . |
| 7 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 8 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 9 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 10 | But he was already looking ahead to this summer 's Ashes series against Australia and the country v county dilemma in which he now finds himself involved . |
| 11 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 12 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 13 | There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders . |
| 14 | Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image . |