Example sentences of "and [verb] himself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 2 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 3 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 4 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 5 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 6 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 7 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 8 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 9 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 10 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 11 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 12 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 13 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 14 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 15 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 16 | He responded to an imperative summons with an ill grace , and presented himself in the drawing-room of Rose 's hired house in a mood of ill-concealed annoyance . |
| 17 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 18 | He ‘ made ’ this year 's Grand National winner , according to trainer Nick Gaselee , teaching the equine giant , nicknamed the Monster Muncher , how to jump and handle himself in a race . |
| 19 | He could not recall lurching like a drunk across the small room and throwing himself in a gibbering heap upon the bed . |
| 20 | ‘ And have n't you heard the Scriptures saying that a man should tie a millstone round his neck and throw himself in the sea sooner than abuse a little child ? ’ |
| 21 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 22 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 23 | Dougal sat in the armchair and wrapped himself in the duvet . |
| 24 | Mr Clinton this week temporarily abandoned his cosy , common touch and wrapped himself in the full trappings of the presidency . |
| 25 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 26 | Saunderson left school to go to a nearby college , and immersed himself in the local house scene , deejaying and doing one-off parties . |
| 27 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |