Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] himself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 2 | The custodian of this mood of growing calm was the new Prime Minister , James Callaghan , who imposed himself on the public consciousness as a new Baldwin , the apostle of peace in our time . |
| 3 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 4 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 5 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 6 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 7 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 8 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 9 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 10 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 11 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 12 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 13 | Hastily he dried himself on the thin towel and clambered into clothes that stuck to every inch of his damp body . |
| 14 | He perched himself on the edge of the gunwale and took the two ends of the rope in his hands . |
| 15 | He touched himself on the chest . |
| 16 | He settled himself on the sofa as he always did , looking fit and rested as he eyed her speculatively . |
| 17 | He founded himself on the principle that an alteration of the terms of the lease agreed between the landlord and the assignee binds the original lessee because the assignee has been put into the shoes of the original lessee and can do all such things as the original lessee could have done . |
| 18 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 19 | Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth . |
| 20 | He felt himself on the edge of hysterical laughter and fought to gain control . |
| 21 | He propped himself on the pool table . |
| 22 | He steadied himself on the arm of a chair . |
| 23 | He considered himself on the whole a pretty steady person , but the trouble with steadiness was that it could very easily become the humdrum . |