Example sentences of "to ingratiate [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharaf Rashidov , the former party boss , would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow . |
| 2 | His policy is to ingratiate himself with anyone who might be useful to him , a nauseating spectacle . |
| 3 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 4 | He seemed determined to ingratiate himself with Stephen . |
| 5 | Harassed by creditors , and pressed by the Treasury to render his long overdue chamber accounts , he fled to Hanover , where he attempted to ingratiate himself with the electoral family . |
| 6 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 8 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 9 | She returned from that visit almost sprightly ( desperate ? ) in her attempts to please and to ingratiate herself into the household . |
| 10 | On the other hand , those newcomers who wish to ‘ belong ’ may try to ingratiate themselves with the local population , sometimes — because of their misconceived expectations of village life — with disappointing results . |
| 11 | What expression do they have when they 're thinking black thoughts about someone they 're trying to ingratiate themselves with , or when they 're being praised for qualities they 're aware they do n't possess ? |
| 12 | What was she doing on Noah 's mountain alongside a pilgrim turned fanatic and a bearded peasant with whom she could not communicate , while the rock below them exploded like the gunpowder they had brought to ingratiate themselves with the local chieftains ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 14 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 15 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 16 | Carter try to ingratiate themselves at our Circulation Not So Bad After All Party , 1990 |
| 17 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 18 | ‘ Listen , you should take the trouble to ingratiate yourself with Nehushtah . |
| 19 | I spend most of my life trying to ingratiate myself into a sick society rather than trying to smash that society . |
| 20 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |