Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Keane continues to develop into the most potent midfield player in English football he found himself short of powerful reinforcements yesterday . |
| 2 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 3 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 4 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 5 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 6 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 7 | As a composer he proved himself adept at large dramatic forms laced with fantasy and irony , epitomised by his opera ‘ The Love of Three Oranges ’ , which had its premiere in Chicago in 1921 . |
| 8 | When he had spent all his money he found himself alone and destitute . |
| 9 | Like all the teachers , I had a one-year contract renewable at Clive 's discretion , which in my case he found himself unable to exercise . |
| 10 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 11 | Howard subscribed to the contemporary theory that the disease was transmitted by vapours ( it is , in fact , caught by man through the bites of body lice ) and well knew how much at risk he put himself each time he entered the noxious cells . |
| 12 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |