Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] himself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 2 | The student needs to immerse himself in the performance of a kata in order to release his emotions . |
| 3 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 4 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 5 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 6 | Atkinson stepped in to sign the 21-year-old 12 months ago and he has established himself in the Villa side ahead of Nigel Spink . |
| 7 | This will also apply where the child intends to represent himself in the proceedings and is capable of doing so . |
| 8 | or the one who seeks to put himself in the place of Christ . |
| 9 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |