Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems , this seems a worthwhile thing to do to me , Chairman , this may reflect that , this position that we are in the business cycle that er , you know , with a slightly optimistic outlook , a lot of firms are seeing themselves in a position to expand and , and need this to help them do so . |
| 2 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 3 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 4 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 5 | It is a well known fact that sheep in their ruthless determination for world domination are disguising themselves in an effort to infiltrate positions of power . |
| 6 | The bank manager 's said O K an overdraft facility while you 're establishing yourself in your first year . |
| 7 | yeah and that 's the problem with this sort of whatever sort of watch you wanted to do , unless unless we encourage and get the backing of the troops on the ground we 're kicking ourselves in the teeth |
| 8 | So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ? |
| 9 | right , you be careful you 're letting yourself in here |
| 10 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 11 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 12 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 13 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 14 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 15 | People are what they are , but some acts are good , others bad , and legislators , reformers and ‘ moralists ’ should aim at organizing society so that human beings as they really are find themselves in circumstances where they tend to do the former . |
| 16 | Lindsey knew she had been fooling herself in thinking she could remain indifferent . |
| 17 | ‘ You are burying yourself in too many thoughts . ’ |
| 18 | This is the question an increasing number of consumers are asking themselves in the financially straitened Nineties . |
| 19 | He was a man of 73 , old for his years , who had been neglecting himself in his very bare rented flat . |
| 20 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 21 | Beyond that size , you would be paying more in compensation for the loss of marginal benefit of another inch than you would be saving yourself in reduced cost of the externality . |
| 22 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 23 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 24 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Although we will not be contesting the election in Darlington and Richmond , we shall be involving ourselves in the debate about environmental issues which have attracted scant attention from the other main parties . ’ |
| 26 | You could be very stupid and go straight back to your flat , in which case you could be putting yourself in a lot of danger . |
| 27 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 28 | Wilkinson said : ‘ I wo n't be throwing myself in the canal over the collapsed deal . |
| 29 | ‘ If I was to insult the contestants I would be shooting myself in the foot . |
| 30 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |