Example sentences of "[verb] oneself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 2 | It was all rather uncanny , to find oneself in a private conversation with the Queen . |
| 3 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 4 | It is , therefore , most important to train oneself in problem answering beforehand . |
| 5 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 6 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 7 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 8 | It may be argued that sexuality has a certain uniqueness which is absent from much property : sexuality is an intrinsic part of one 's personality , it is a mode of expressing that personality in relation to others , and it is therefore fundamental that one should be able to choose whether to express oneself in this way — and , if so , towards and with whom . |
| 9 | It was best to identify oneself in relation to one 's clerical superior . |
| 10 | After travelling halfway around the globe to one of the remotest spots on Earth , encasing oneself in goosedown against the cold , mounting a snowmobile and riding through the vastness , the glimpse of a dark object starts the heart pounding . |
| 11 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 12 | The vernacular of any way of life can only be absorbed ‘ through the skin ’ by immersing oneself in its people ; and to this end you would be foolish not to spend at least a year ( preferably two ) working on mixed farms in the district in which you hope to settle , making friends and winning the respect of the countrymen who will be your neighbours . |
| 13 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 14 | It is a large , modern building and it would be easy to imagine oneself in a hospital except for the noise , cheerful bustle and attractive classrooms . |
| 15 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 16 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 17 | This may involve sharing in the experience of those under study and trying to put oneself in their position . |
| 18 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 19 | To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position . |
| 20 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |
| 21 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 22 | To walk the length of a great basilica from porch to apse was to make the journey of salvation and find oneself in ‘ a place of perfection , the heavenly Jerusalem , its walls and buildings made in heaven , transferred to this spot ’ . |
| 23 | This judgement applies to the I- dominant poems ( 88 , 89 ) as to the Thou- dominant ones , such as 35 , where after the first quatrain excusing the Friend 's faults ( ‘ No more be griev 'd at that which thou hast done ’ ) the second suddenly recoils on itself : This is indeed to bring a plea ‘ 'gainst myself ’ , to become an accomplice or ‘ accessory ’ , plunging oneself in ‘ civil war ’ . |
| 24 | It 's only a thought , but is it possible that the person who threw the carton of orange juice and 50p piece at Morrissey at the Madness ( Madness , not Morrissey ) gig was not some National Front yob but someone who felt that draping oneself in a Union Jack — still , like it or not , a symbol of racism — is itself racist ? |
| 25 | She parallels her experience struggling to gain control of her body on the trapeze with her struggle with the creative process ; ‘ working on the trapeze one is continually putting oneself in a position of overcoming fear . |
| 26 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 27 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 28 | Quiz programmes , for instance , appealed to people as a means of excitement and escape from worries , an opportunity to rate oneself in comparison with other people and possibly to learn something . |
| 29 | The core Marxist value is freedom — freedom from exploitation , freedom from the coercion of others , and freedom to realize oneself in creative labour . |
| 30 | Now that ‘ minority ’ status has become an effective promotional tool in the visual arts , losing the legal right to label one 's art as ‘ Indian ’ can mean losing the chance to distinguish oneself in an overcrowded market . |