Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 2 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 3 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 4 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 5 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 6 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 7 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 8 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 9 | At such meetings he kept himself in touch with the constantly changing scene of poetry , the new faces which appeared , the old names which disappeared . |
| 10 | As the train thundered over a set of points he steadied himself against her seat for a moment , then wandered off down the aisle . |