Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten or twelve different gods are embodied now , and they are all amusing themselves in different ways . |
| 2 | Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard , landing themselves in serious trouble . |
| 3 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 4 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 5 | Yes , but ticky boxes , and expressing themselves in other |
| 6 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 7 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 8 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 9 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
| 10 | Whereas the peasants continued to be edified through oral accounts of the lives of the Saints and of holy pilgrims , and occasionally learnt to read the alphabet through the Psalter , the upper classes had paid lip-service to the state religion whilst immersing themselves in rationalist Western thought . |
| 11 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 12 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 13 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 14 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 15 | I frequent the Heath , the Ladies ' Pond , where I meet Kelly and Jo and lush Simone , sunning themselves in topless array and munching on nectarines which drip down necks and towels . |
| 16 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 17 | Many people finding themselves in this position would also benefit from spending a few weeks engaged in extensive job search activities as members of a Job Club . |
| 18 | In many areas they are now however finding themselves in direct competition with Tertiary Colleges which operate under F.E. regulations and which are not constrained by school regulations . |
| 19 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 20 | If this occurs , try to contain such behaviour by discouraging anyone from sexual activity or from exposing themselves in public . |
| 21 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |