Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , in turn , suggests that perhaps he found himself in a dilemma — caught between his naturally humane feelings and the logic of his unsentimental , utilitarian theory . |
| 2 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 3 | So he shaved himself in a great hurry . |
| 4 | Meanwhile he readied himself for a sixteen-tooth smile . |
| 5 | Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where . |
| 6 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 7 | Desperately he hauled himself along the cliff face , right leg dragging over rocks , waterfalls bucketing their charge of stones and gravel on his head . |
| 8 | Yesterday he played himself to a world cup spot , more consentrated and on the alert then ever . |
| 9 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 13 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 16 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 17 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 18 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | From then on he dissociated himself from the Church of England , and he and Starky preached in barns near Charlynch , drawing huge crowds . |
| 21 | Next time he went to sign on he armed himself with a photocopy of the relevant pages . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick . |
| 26 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 27 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 28 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400 , and walked out jauntily . |