Example sentences of "himself at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 2 | When the plaintiff presented himself at the theatre , the defendant , who was X 's servant and manager of the theatre , detected the plaintiff and refused to admit him . |
| 3 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 4 | ‘ More than twenty thousand , mein Fuhrer , ’ said Buhle , putting himself at the top of the class . |
| 5 | They were also asked to write about ‘ John ’ finding himself at the top of his medical school . |
| 6 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 14 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 20 | He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium . |
| 21 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 22 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
| 23 | As soon as the basic tasks were finished , it was Jonadab 's custom to seat himself at the parlour table with a ledger and a leather drawstring bag full of money . |
| 24 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 25 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 26 | Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ? |
| 27 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 30 | 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 . |