Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 7 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 8 | After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born . |
| 9 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 10 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 11 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 12 | Saddam , a polished television performer , made considerable use of the medium for propaganda purposes , as when he conducted a conversation on camera with a British child caught up in the war who now found himself a ‘ guest ’ of the Iraqi regime . |
| 13 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 14 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 17 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 18 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 19 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 20 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 21 | Nu found himself the ‘ treasurer without treasure ’ in his own words . |
| 22 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 23 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 24 | In the early 1920s , when the industry was increasingly the preserve of the studios , Goldwyn found himself an outsider , an independent producer in competition with the majors . |
| 25 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 26 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 27 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 28 | At Chiswick Burlington built himself a villa , modelled on the Villa Rotonda of Palladio , but Pope at Twickenham had a villa too which was also expressive of Palladian principles ( Figs 3a , 3b ) . |
| 29 | After an early life of sailing most of the seven seas , John built himself a 45ft ( 13.7m ) clipper-bowed ketch and named her Outward Bound . |
| 30 | He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ? |