Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 2 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 3 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 4 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 5 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 6 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 8 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 9 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 10 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 11 | Built himself a shit-hot reputation and moved firms three , maybe four times , before the Bang . |
| 12 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 13 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 14 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 15 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 16 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 17 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 18 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 19 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 20 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 21 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 22 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 24 | He also got himself a new caddie , Froggy Davies . |
| 25 | He proclaimed himself a devout servant of the God of Israel . |
| 26 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 27 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 28 | He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti . |
| 29 | Connor allowed himself a crooked smile . |
| 30 | Briant allowed himself a small sigh of irritation . |