Example sentences of "himself in the position " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 3 | Macarthy , the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable . |
| 4 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 7 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 8 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 9 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 10 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |