Example sentences of "himself in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 2 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 3 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 4 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 5 | Maltote staggered to his feet and went down to relieve himself in the necessary house . |
| 6 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 7 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 8 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 10 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 11 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 12 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 13 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 14 | Gordon Selfridge , who went on to do rather well himself in the department-store business , started as one of Marshall 's clerks . |
| 15 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 16 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 17 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 18 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 19 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 20 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 21 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 22 | Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring ; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs . |
| 23 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 24 | He dumped himself in the battered armchair and watched her , chatting cosily the while . |
| 25 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 26 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 27 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 28 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |
| 29 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 30 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |