"to locate himself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone looking for a specific place, often using directions or navigation tools. For example: After studying the map, Chris decided to use his GPS to locate himself.
He therefore had to locate himself inside the frame.
Bannon, indeed, seems to be in a constant search for "historic" dramas, and ways to locate himself within them.
These provide reconnaissance information, communications facilities and also the global-positioning system that allows a squaddie to locate himself on the earth's surface to within a few metres.
He is the wild animal who doesn't know who he is: a teen-age narcissist trying to locate himself in the eyes of others.
Like Pool, Eshun struggles at times to locate himself in Africa, but his book is different because he is not approaching everything for the first time.
Yasin - half-Sudanese, half-English, "a stranger wherever I go" - is also out to locate himself in history as he drives through Europe.
The antic spirit of the harlequin is unbridled appetite and aggression — a drive that Irwin is unable to locate in himself or anywhere else in the show.
There is talk, he said, that Mr. Gono "may be strategically locating himself for succession to President Mugabe," who is scheduled to retire in 20 months.
Then, at Peshawar airport, before their journey had really begun, the brothers were separated and Gulwali's quest became twofold – to find a safe place for himself, and to locate his brother.
Unfortunately, I personally have been unable to locate a gardener that will detach himself from this tool.
The alarming events involving Crowley in Texas, including police using a helicopter to locate Manziel, who indicated he might harm himself, were the final straw for the Browns.
