Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] himself in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 2 | Mr Major was a man who had humiliated himself in the Commons defeat over the European Committee of the Regions , he said , adding that the Prime Minister had been forced to ‘ hop into bed ’ with a party pledged to destroy the Union . |
| 3 | or the one who seeks to put himself in the place of Christ . |
| 4 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 5 | Atkinson stepped in to sign the 21-year-old 12 months ago and he has established himself in the Villa side ahead of Nigel Spink . |
| 6 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 7 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 8 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 9 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 10 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |
| 11 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 12 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 13 | In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy . |
| 14 | He had drowned himself in the Rectory pond . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 16 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |