Example sentences of "himself at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More than twenty thousand , mein Fuhrer , ’ said Buhle , putting himself at the top of the class . |
| 2 | They were also asked to write about ‘ John ’ finding himself at the top of his medical school . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 4 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 5 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 6 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 7 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 8 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 9 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 10 | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour : he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint . |
| 11 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 12 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 13 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 14 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 15 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 16 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 17 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
| 18 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 19 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 20 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |
| 21 | During a horse show he positioned himself at the edge of the arena . |
| 22 | He distinguished himself at the siege of Breda in 1637 and in 1639 was back in England , serving in the Scots expedition of that and the following year . |
| 23 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 24 | Together with the abolition of the Wage Councils and the minimum wage , the working man will find himself at the mercy of the unscrupulous bosses . |
| 25 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 26 | He will find himself at the heart of a Ruritanian ceremonial which makes the House of Lords seem informal . |
| 27 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 28 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 29 | RICHIE Richardson will find himself at the centre of another bitter Yorkshire bust-up tonight . |
| 30 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |