Example sentences of "[verb] himself in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 2 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 3 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 4 | He called again that evening , burying himself in the hurrying crowds in the centre of Luton . |
| 5 | He felt no call to entangle himself in the ecclesiastical-political questions of his day . |
| 6 | Mr Clinton this week temporarily abandoned his cosy , common touch and wrapped himself in the full trappings of the presidency . |
| 7 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |