Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 2 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 3 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 4 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 5 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 6 | Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him . |
| 7 | David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 . |
| 8 | When a woman entered the room T J H Laurence , as he signed himself in typical British stiff-upper-lip fashion , would immediately stand up , his old-fashioned courtesy drawing amused glances from classmates . |
| 9 | Lunch was provided in a cafeteria and tea in a common room — an environment which sounds uncomfortably similar to that of more youthful days , and in fact he signed himself in one letter as " Advanced Student " . |
| 10 | He interested himself in fiscal , banking , and trade policy . |
| 11 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 13 | When he had received news that morning from Teheran via Geneva that the ship he had chartered had gone missing , he indulged himself in genuine anger . |
| 14 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 15 | Bathed in a delicate self-importance , he held himself in high esteem as the bearer of one of Italy 's oldest titles . |
| 16 | He immersed himself in all things western , surrounded by Russian-trained professors and visiting composers — Alexander Goehr , Henze , George Crumb , Takemitsu . |
| 17 | At the same time he immersed himself in public service beyond as well as within the Jewish and Anglo-Jewish worlds . |