Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The songs are good , and Procession are not afraid of immersing themselves totally in their music , but perhaps a more measured approach might be worthwhile . |
| 2 | Their foregrounding of this unreality , their knowing winks , are actually an abstention from immersing themselves fully in the ‘ pop process ’ in all its madness , carnality and glamour . |
| 3 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 4 | And others were so deeply affected that they withdrew from the community , shutting themselves away in their homes . |
| 5 | She watched as the jagged tears in the sky mended , cobbling themselves together in a uniform grey . |
| 6 | Although most children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds have not been identified as low achieving , there is still a high correlation between social-class membership and educational achievement , with middle-class children distancing themselves increasingly in educational achievements and perhaps also socially from children from working-class backgrounds — another form of segregation within what purports to be the mainstream . |
| 7 | Anna and Isobel , finding themselves together in front of a bright watercolour of a Cornish harbour painted by Archdeacon Neville on one of his walking holidays , fell into conversation . |
| 8 | And so it did n't really make sense that when she lay in bed half an hour later , with images of the evening playing themselves chaotically in her mind , her mood was rather blue and wistful . |
| 9 | Pumfrey noticed that a slight flush came into Pickerage 's face , and he looked down at his hands , clasping and unclasping themselves nervously in his lap . |
| 10 | These loops have a mind of their own , seldom , if ever , appearing on the side seam under the arm , but rather placing themselves right in the middle of the front of a garment ! |