Example sentences of "[vb past] himself in the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAPLESS John Major found himself in the middle of an almighty Tory punch-up over Europe yesterday . |
| 2 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 3 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 4 | ECHO chief photographer Stephen Shakeshaft found himself in the middle of a real cat and mouse game right in the heart of the city as he caught up with cartoon characters Tom and Jerry . |
| 5 | THE Chancellor , Norman Lamont , found himself in the middle of a full-scale row last night over his Budget decision to put value-added tax on domestic fuels . |
| 6 | The same year , he found himself in the company of Mona , who described herself in court as an ‘ apolitical pacifist ’ who spread her huge family wealth in a series of film , TV , stage and property ventures . |
| 7 | The benefits of this system can be demonstrated by the example of the trader who carted a crate of whetstones from Craven Arms , or possibly from Stony Stratford , to Wroxeter for a market day , where he found himself in the company of other merchants selling mortaria as well as samian ware from Gaul . |
| 8 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Macarthy , the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 13 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 14 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But in almost all instances lie recovered himself in the process of revision , took out the passages which were rhythmically inert or altered words and images which did not sustain the underlying cadence and structure . |
| 17 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 18 | Then Mitch Cook flung himself in the way of a goalbound Gary Bennett drive after Rimmer had squirmed free down the left . |
| 19 | In the closing minutes of the half Collins threw himself in the way of yet another Coyle attempt after dropping Marty McCaffrey 's free kick to keep his goal intact at the interval . |
| 20 | As a developing pianist in his teens , he soaked himself in the music of Mozart , Beethoven and , most of all , Elgar , with whose musical language he found much affinity . |
| 21 | We floated quickly across — no artificial grav even in a Manport — to be greeted by a small pale human wearing lushly decorated robes , who abased himself in the manner of a true flunkey and then blandly introduced as one y'Pripio . |
| 22 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 23 | Wycliffe and Curtis sat in the stern while Smith placed himself in the lee of the fo'c'sle on a little tip-up seat by the wheel . |
| 24 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 25 | He also interested himself in the administration of this seat of learning , the colours of the students ' gowns — scarlet ; and the professors ' — black . |
| 26 | Gazing at the random and momentary flares Ludens felt himself in the presence of some awful rite . |
| 27 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 28 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He responded to an imperative summons with an ill grace , and presented himself in the drawing-room of Rose 's hired house in a mood of ill-concealed annoyance . |