Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 2 | He made the mistake of following the thread of foaming water with his eyes , and jerked himself back just in time . |
| 3 | The Admiral jerked himself back into consciousness of his surroundings . |
| 4 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 5 | He thought for a second about the Brigadier 's last biased pronouncement , found himself immediately incensed , and launched impetuously into a passionate rebuttal . |
| 6 | Willie found himself immediately surrounded . |
| 7 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 8 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |
| 9 | Unfortunately his work as art adviser did not allow him much time to paint , but some years ago , moving from urban to country surroundings , he found himself most excited by the wild moors and dales of Yorkshire , and once more began to paint . |
| 10 | He now watched Mick follow Carrie to the door way that led into the scullery , and he found himself also stepping in that direction , until he could take in the whole of the scullery and the open backyard door through which Mr Carver was now passing , saying as he did so , ‘ Ta-rah , then . ’ |
| 11 | Twoflower found himself fervently wishing for light . |
| 12 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 13 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 14 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 15 | Mr Moran , Anfield 's longest-serving stalwart , found himself unexpectedly entering a second term of caretaker command last weekend when Mr Souness disclosed that major heart surgery was necessary to keep a 38-year-old frame in peak condition . |
| 16 | So he found himself unexpectedly spending his holiday in the little port of Cassis . |
| 17 | He found himself unexpectedly touched by her simple assumption , the way she absolutely took it for granted , that he was innocent . |
| 18 | Anselm can scarcely have digested the lessons of this failure when he once more found himself unexpectedly in exile . |
| 19 | Sometimes a midshipman 's place was sheer necessity , as in the case of a son of an Angus freeholder named David Lyell who found himself involuntarily a member of the Royal Navy . |
| 20 | Whenever he visited the O'Malleys he found himself secretly staring at her , letting his eyes roam over her full breasts and wide hips , gauging her breeding possibilities as he would a heifer at a fair . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 22 | After dominating for four rounds , he suddenly found himself up against it when he shipped a series of right hand shots in the final two sessions . |
| 23 | The well-organised Russian rearguard should have been pierced five minutes into the second half when Michael Thomas found himself just six yards out , only for Dmitri Khlestov to clear off the line . |
| 24 | Now , with the dawn breaking and his death so close , he found himself strangely sanguine — almost as if he were an abstract entity observing , from another place , the last chapter of his life . |
| 25 | He found himself bitterly telling Graus of the horrors which he had witnessed during a war in which the Israelis still claim they never committed atrocities . |
| 26 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 27 | With a French father , a Norwegian mother , and a mainly English education , he found himself perpetually treated as an object of faintly mocking derision : a Frog at school , an Anglo-Saxon Milor on holiday in France , and some sort of raping and pillaging Viking everywhere . |
| 28 | As Sixsmith ordered a gin and tonic , and as he amusingly expatiated on his weakness for prawn cocktails , Alistair found himself wryly but powerfully drawn to this man — to this tousled screenplay writer with his dreamy gaze , the curious elisions of his somewhat slurred voice , and the great dents and bone-shadow of his face , all the faulty fontanelles of vocational care . |
| 29 | Sam found himself completely cut off by his own side of the family , who considered he had married beneath him ; while John had a furious row with him because he did not think Sam good enough for Marie . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , over in Soho , a bemused MARY MARY ( one-time Mary Byker and currently leading light in HYPERHEAD ) found himself completely surrounded by young Japanese girls all screaming wildly and shaking autograph books at him . |