Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] himself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 6 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was only 15 when he hanged himself in the hospital wing of Swansea Prison hours after being found guilty in court . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think you 're all reading too much into the Morrissey thing as to why he wrapped himself in the Union Jack , I think he was probably just cold … |
| 13 | Gently but firmly he asserted himself in the organization . |