Example sentences of "themselves [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Those that stand still could find themselves right in the discounters ' sights . |
| 4 | After having established themselves powerfully in the ‘ bush ’ market , DHC decided that a larger machine would also find a market . |
| 5 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 6 | Boot sector viruses , such as Brain and Joshi , hide themselves away in the boot sector of a hard disk and are able to go memory-resident every time the PC is booted up . |
| 7 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 8 | In those early pre-TV Saturday afternoon matinee days at the Ideal cinema in Carrickfergus , only two movies broke the mould for me and lodged themselves forever in the imagination : The Wizard of Oz and Darby O'Gill and the Little People . |
| 9 | Those who teach and train children must constantly remind themselves that they were themselves once in the position of the children , and the children will in their turn , one day be in the position of the teachers . |
| 10 | Ox-eye or moon daisies establish themselves quickly in the wildflower meadow |
| 11 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 12 | L et 's be honest , the only thing wrong with laces is they 're a pain to do up every time and they sometimes seem to untie themselves mysteriously in the middle of a run . |
| 13 | Yes , this is the stuff real men are made of and let all those jessie pop stars who holed themselves up in the luxury of four star hotels hang their heads in shame ! |
| 14 | They all bugger themselves up in the end . |
| 15 | When Mrs Gaskell herself went to stay with a duke , her daughter , Meta , suggested that they should dress themselves up in the bed curtains ‘ of thick white satin stamped with little rosebuds ’ . |
| 16 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 17 | People do leave something of themselves behind in the houses they 've lived in , the Japanese recognize that in some way , I do n't know how . |
| 18 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 19 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 20 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 21 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 22 | Attitudes toward science — also treated elsewhere in the same issue — and the apparently instinctive antipathy toward new ideas that do not fit readily into one 's established mental framework , continue to manifest themselves even in the context of the current technological age . |
| 23 | Because they argue and fight amongst themselves even in the thick of battle , Orcs and Goblins are affected by a special Animosity rule . |
| 24 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 25 | And also actually getting them there , themselves there in the first place is very difficult . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Along with the canteen , therefore , the parade room is a key location where , at the beginning of the day 's work , individuals start to immerse themselves again in the occupational culture of the station and adjust to the labour process . |
| 28 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 29 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |