Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 2 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 3 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 4 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 5 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 6 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 7 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 8 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 9 | Newly appointed as Duke of Swabia , Frederick Barbarossa had an opportunity to mix with other nobles , and acquitted himself well in the crusade . |
| 10 | König had from student days interested himself deeply in the life and works of Rudolf Steiner ( 1861–1925 ) , the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy . |
| 11 | When they were clear of the city 's traffic , Colt eased himself back in the seat and lit a small cigar . |
| 12 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 13 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 14 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 15 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 16 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 17 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |