Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756 . |
| 2 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 3 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Tolkien 's censure , written from the standpoint of one who had himself hardened in a sentimental devotion to the religion of his boyhood , must not be accepted without qualifications . |
| 6 | This intention was warmly supported by John Whitgift , the Archbishop of Canterbury , who had himself engaged in a spirited controversy with the leading contemporary Puritan theologian Thomas Cartwright . |
| 7 | I think Chris was using her to get himself accepted into the organisation , whatever it was . ’ |
| 8 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 9 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 10 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 11 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 12 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 13 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 14 | When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 16 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 17 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 18 | He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself . |
| 19 | Back inside the house , he found himself confronted by the gin-filled man . |
| 20 | Cast ashore with his retinue in a storm , he found himself surrounded by a ‘ huge army of pagans ’ bent on plunder and murder . |
| 21 | He heard himself described as an undesirable scourge of the neighbourhood by several witnesses . |
| 22 | He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence . |
| 23 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 24 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 25 | And he saw himself left with a ridiculous , dead feeling , and — a half-drugged , frightened , tearful , disgusted young girl . |
| 26 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 27 | The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor . |
| 28 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 29 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 30 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |