found himself
Examples
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.
Avoiding the drop, he found himself under the gutter.