Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 2 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 3 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 4 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 5 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 6 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 7 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 8 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 9 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |
| 10 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 11 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 12 | The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched . |
| 13 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 14 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |