Example sentences of "find himself [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 2 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 3 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 8 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 9 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 12 | Consequently , instead of being censured , Mr Reed finds himself a heroic front-runner in the 1991 Guttersnipe Man Of The Year contest . |
| 13 | A player who has thrived on goals throughout his career , suddenly no longer finds himself a regular name on the scoresheet . |
| 14 | With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 16 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 17 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 18 | A freelance musician has found himself the perfect practice room … an empty theatre which he has all to himself . |
| 19 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 20 | As on his visit to Peking in May , the Soviet President this weekend risks finding himself an unwilling player in a domestic political drama which eclipses the notional reason for his presence . |
| 21 | An Ellyrian mounted on a black horse can often find himself a prime target for Dark Elf attacks |