Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 2 | Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where . |
| 3 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 4 | Desperately he hauled himself along the cliff face , right leg dragging over rocks , waterfalls bucketing their charge of stones and gravel on his head . |
| 5 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 6 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 7 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 8 | Riding , she had noticed how straight he held himself in the saddle , how unruffled he had been when leading his horse across a fast-flowing stream , how easily he brought his mount to jump a wall ; as though he were part of the animal he rode . |
| 9 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 10 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 11 | From then on he dissociated himself from the Church of England , and he and Starky preached in barns near Charlynch , drawing huge crowds . |
| 12 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 13 | At times he felt tender and protective towards her , but sometimes he surprised himself by the hatred he felt for her , because she was healthy and free and had no need of him . |
| 14 | Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick . |
| 15 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 16 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 17 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 18 | Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond . |
| 19 | Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400 , and walked out jauntily . |
| 20 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 21 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
| 22 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 23 | Without being aware of getting there he found himself outside the printer 's shop . |
| 24 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 25 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 26 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 27 | He was only 15 when he hanged himself in the hospital wing of Swansea Prison hours after being found guilty in court . |
| 28 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 29 | The benefits of this system can be demonstrated by the example of the trader who carted a crate of whetstones from Craven Arms , or possibly from Stony Stratford , to Wroxeter for a market day , where he found himself in the company of other merchants selling mortaria as well as samian ware from Gaul . |
| 30 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |