Example sentences of "[verb] himself in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 32 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 33 | He dumped himself in the battered armchair and watched her , chatting cosily the while . |
| 34 | The man who wept during England 's World Cup semi-final with Germany two years ago , now can not bear to watch himself in the white shirt of his country . |
| 35 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 36 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 37 | Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring ; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs . |
| 38 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 39 | First , however , he must prove himself in the hardest job of his life . |
| 40 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 41 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 42 | Maltote staggered to his feet and went down to relieve himself in the necessary house . |
| 43 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 44 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 45 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 46 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |
| 47 | Another who may find himself in the same situation will call upon all his inner resources in his efforts to deal with the problem . |
| 48 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 49 | Born Jan Ludwig Hoch , the son of a Czech labourer , Robert Maxwell escaped the Nazis to distinguish himself in the British Army . |
| 50 | He recognized himself in the main character . |
| 51 | He preferred , he said , to submerge himself in the urban swill , or be in deep country . |
| 52 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 53 | Saunderson left school to go to a nearby college , and immersed himself in the local house scene , deejaying and doing one-off parties . |
| 54 | This may have contributed to the vigour with which he immersed himself in the growing student unrest that was a feature if the political upheavals of the time . |
| 55 | We finished our drinks and Siegfried immersed himself in the Veterinary Record as savoury smells began to issue from the kitchen . |
| 56 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |