Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] himself [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 2 | He hardened himself against the sight of her ; even so he felt himself moved . |
| 3 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 4 | He was forever on the verge of falling into sweet , endless sleep , but somehow he forced himself to stay awake . |
| 5 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 6 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 7 | Yesterday he allowed himself to become infuriated by another day of snail 's pace golf and awkward pin placings on the small , undulating greens . |
| 8 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 9 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 10 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 11 | Very clearly he saw himself standing in the BBC Club with Sherlock Forster and hearing the name of Marius Steen , the name that had come to dominate his life . |
| 12 | Now he saw himself step into the picture , and something he was doing or saying made the men and women before him jump from their seats , even Lionel . |
| 13 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 14 | Now he found himself remembering , not the song , not the singer , but her young breasts ; the breasts of Juliet , springing like fruit from a bough . |
| 15 | The sudden change had not come easy to him , and even now he found himself muttering ‘ Mam ’ under his breath because that old name was somehow special and precious . |
| 16 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 17 | He was himself directly responsible for Gideon 's suicide , and now he found himself sitting with Gideon 's friends . |
| 18 | And now he found himself wondering whether she knew or guessed about Amy . |
| 19 | Richard had joined the birdwatching society hoping to make friends and been disappointed when the membership dwindled in consequence ; now he found himself surrounded by eager acolytes . |
| 20 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 21 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 22 | Sometimes he felt himself wince and it was strange because he could n't tell whether it was the needle or his memory . |
| 23 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 24 | For a moment he did not know what to say , then he composed himself to pretend she had said something else , and then he laughed . |
| 25 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 26 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 27 | There he found himself working again with Barry , assisting him in the creation of a new terrace garden . |
| 28 | Yet he found himself treading a familiar road when he played a junkie in Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) . |
| 29 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |
| 30 | Again he felt himself thinking brilliantly , knowing at the same time that the words he heard in his head would sound ridiculous if used in speech . |