Example sentences of "himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the latter he wrote , ‘ Lucas van Leyden is an artist of frailer calibre than Dürer , and prone to lose himself in imitation of stronger men , each of his contemporaries in turn dominating his style . ’ |
| 2 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 3 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 4 | And it is apparent that Ackroyd has found himself in this manner — through exposure to Wilde , Eliot , and now Chatterton . |
| 5 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 6 | Philip the Bastard , half brother to Robert Faulconbridge , and son of King Richard the First , discovers himself in a position of authority when King John knights him and dubs him Sir Richard Plantagenet . |
| 7 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 8 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 11 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 12 | The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety . |
| 13 | If an inexperienced pilot finds himself in a situation where a field landing seems necessary , he should make the decision to choose a field and plan the landing properly , while there is height and time to spare . |
| 14 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 15 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 16 | He could scarcely help himself in choosing this physical format . |
| 17 | At such meetings he kept himself in touch with the constantly changing scene of poetry , the new faces which appeared , the old names which disappeared . |
| 18 | Duncan buried himself in the paper and with an air of finality he said , — Well I 've got my job here and I 'm happy with it . |
| 19 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
| 20 | When Fokine was asked who was the male figure in Les Sylphides he replied : ‘ Perhaps he is Love himself in a romantic , nostalgic mood . |
| 21 | Dostoevsky exhorted himself in his notebooks to ‘ explain the whole murder one way or another and make its character and relations clear ’ , but the artist in him would n't allow it . |
| 22 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 23 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 24 | On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible . |
| 25 | Hartman presents himself in a complicated relationship with Derrida : engaging with him , succumbing to him , imitating him , and trying to resist him . |
| 26 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 27 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 28 | Mr Lo thus put himself in the forefront of consensus politics in Hong Kong , thereby leaving his unrelated namesake , Lo Tak-shing , to seize the high ground further to the right . |
| 29 | There will be a few moist eyes at Old Trafford if Fergie finds himself in dreamland again tonight , in what will surely be his last appearance in Britain . |
| 30 | Contradictorily , Mr Patten also declared himself in favour of seeing urban land recycled — it already provides nearly half the land used for new homes . |