Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] himself in [art] " in BNC.

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1 On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull .
2 All day he sees himself in the glass darkly
3 When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before .
4 On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to .
5 Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity .
6 I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has .
7 For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones .
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