Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields .
2 But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain .
3 Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse .
4 HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston .
5 When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening .
6 So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates .
7 As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ .
8 Both types of books , the Maigrets and the one-off crime novels , rely on simple language — Simenon famously restricted himself to a vocabulary of 2,000 words — and a length of around 150 pages .
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 Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock .
11 In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience .
12 By using Yagüe as his intermediary , however , Franco effectively distanced himself from the horror .
13 Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders .
14 Mayne quickly established himself as the most exceptional officer in Stirling 's rapidly expanding SAS force , which became the 1st Special Air Service Regiment in September 1942 , with Stirling in command as lieutenant-colonel .
15 Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany .
16 Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark .
17 Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons .
18 SPEEDING driver Shaun Largue almost killed himself in a head-on collision , a court heard .
19 Separated from his tutor , Charles nevertheless found himself in a fairly congenial environment : Markward was a noted scholar , and Prüm 's library was well-stocked .
20 Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post .
21 Charles also found himself in a difficult position .
22 Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German ( whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves ) .
23 Charles now found himself in a situation that would often recur : he had important unfinished business in Aquitaine , but his presence was required in Francia .
24 The first stage must have been the re-establishment of Eadwine 's Humbrian confederacy to embrace Lindsey , for example , over which Oswald certainly established himself as a conqueror ( HE 111 , 11 ) , and to bring the Mercians back into a dependent relationship ; and the second to restore Eadwine 's position of dominance in southern England .
25 His unit is stationed near the Cambodian border , and Chris soon finds himself on a night patrol in the jungle .
26 A few more yells and crashings about and Mr Landor invariably wrapped himself in a quilt and fell asleep .
27 Mosley consciously educated himself through the writings of Keynes , Hobson and other Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) theorists to become the most perceptive of all government critics actively opposing the consensus of economic policy-making in the 1920s .
28 THE policeman injured in a chase in the East End accidentally shot himself in the groin as he leapt from a car .
29 Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) .
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