Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] himself in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 3 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 4 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 6 | The container , on the other hand , with his tendency to dissociate , ‘ has an especial need to unify himself in an undivided love ’ , but finds the simpler personality of his partner does not complement and satisfy the diverse facets of his own . |
| 7 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 8 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 9 | As he sat there breakfasting with his younger brother , he watched his father busying himself in an unusual way . |
| 10 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 11 | One of the notable ways in which the Spirit expressed himself in the Christian community was through creating unity . |
| 12 | He felt no call to entangle himself in the ecclesiastical-political questions of his day . |
| 13 | A TEENAGE arsonist trapped himself in a blazing school , a court heard yesterday . |
| 14 | Hartman presents himself in a complicated relationship with Derrida : engaging with him , succumbing to him , imitating him , and trying to resist him . |
| 15 | 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 . |