Example sentences of "[verb] himself [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 2 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 3 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 4 | It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other . |
| 5 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke is not , after all , the first , nor will he be the last politician to find himself caught on the hop by a shrewd interviewer . |
| 7 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 8 | He now has himself cast in the role of Satan , and I in the role of God Almighty . |
| 9 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 10 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 11 | It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line . |
| 12 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 13 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 14 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 15 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 16 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 17 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 18 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 19 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 20 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 21 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 22 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 23 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 24 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 25 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 26 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 27 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 28 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 29 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 30 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |