Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Catholic church involved itself fully both in the important rites of passage , such as baptism , marriage , and the last rites , that marked an individual 's progress from the cradle to the grave , and also in the annual round of celebrations which marked out the changing seasons . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , DCSLs advised on availability , choice and the mechanics of acquisition , down to and including the precise way in which order forms were to be completed , but in at least one case the DCSL involved herself more fully in the policy-making deliberations of the school library committee . |
| 4 | And the two policemen were ushered out of the office and found themselves once again in the hallway . |
| 5 | ‘ I have spent time in Greece and Malta during those countries ’ General Elections and found the electorate involved themselves much more in the campaigns and really enjoyed the experience , ’ she said . |
| 6 | People who apologize always put themselves so soundly in the right . |
| 7 | Now imagine yourself once again in the room you love . |
| 8 | Such failures of perception reveal themselves most acrimoniously in the issue of intellectual property rights . |
| 9 | This has shown itself most vividly in the miserable business of Macedonia . |
| 10 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
| 11 | He had , after all , surpassed himself once more in the 1991 Ryder Cup by winning 4½ points out of 5 . |
| 12 | Central government and received opinion were powerless against that pressure , which expressed itself most clearly in the urge to enter secondary-modern pupils for public examinations . |
| 13 | In common with so much of this history of respectable fears , we find ourselves once more in the realm of feeling rather than fact , for although Baden-Powell never tired of claiming that Scouting could reach the Hooligans , on the available evidence it would seem that the movement 's major recruiting base was among middle-class and lower middle-class youths , rather than among slum youth . |
| 14 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 15 | So Hagar finds herself once more in the desert . |
| 16 | When she contracted breast cancer , she used phototherapy to defeat her sense of powerlessness and despair — a mug shot of her damaged breast re-humanised the dehumanisation of the hospital process — and placed herself once more in the centre of her own drama . |
| 17 | It is likely , therefore , that Aethelred was involving himself quite extensively in the affairs of the Hwicce across these years , being personally associated , for example , if the relevant document has an authentic base , with the founding of the monastery of St Peter , Gloucester , in 681 ( CS 60 : S 70 ) . |
| 18 | She saw herself once again in the cheval glass . |
| 19 | Ruth tucked herself further down in the wicker chair and hoisted up her cotton skirt to expose her long legs to the heat of the sun . |
| 20 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |