Example sentences of "himself [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
2 Tom settled himself down at the table and said , ‘ Now , let's have a chat about what we 're going to do when this snow clears .
3 Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home .
4 He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat .
5 Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start .
6 But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self .
7 He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest .
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