Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 2 | These young men , taciturn , hard-working , serious , did not conduct themselves in what Mr Bullins considered the correct manner . |
| 3 | Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say . |
| 4 | I think you can be much more relaxed about the way your child 's growing up if you 're not over-investing yourself in the way it grows up , if you follow me . |
| 5 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 6 | You will not respect yourself in the morning . |
| 7 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 8 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 9 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 10 | In particular , he urges his disciple not to become anxious about his failures and not to strain himself in his quest for perfection . |
| 11 | In the pubs , the report added , they would have been ‘ safe … as the pacifists are generally teetotallers who will not show themselves in these abodes of iniquity . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore , the unwillingness of policemen to define their role in these terms does not show itself in a failure to perform these duties but as a judgement that it is ‘ really ’ the work of others . |
| 13 | But the recognition since of the tremendous value of historic buildings of all types , the successful conversion of buildings for new uses and a public determination that history will not repeat itself in terms of the demolition and desecration that was then taking place , have inspired us — and many local amenity societies , preservation trusts , action groups and individuals — to carry on campaigning . |
| 14 | It is not appropriate to judge a novel or film , a work of art or philosophy in political terms if the work in question does not take that form ( i.e. , does not organize itself in terms of political discourse ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Romiti , the ruthlessly effective chief executive who was their main target , did not present himself in court . |
| 17 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Darling , you are not imagining yourself in love with this young man ? ’ |
| 19 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 20 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |
| 21 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 22 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 23 | But it was rumoured that the Palace was enchanted by what it had heard of the planned event and wished to make a non-committal gesture of support while not embroiling itself in politics . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients . |
| 25 | Thus , in the present case , the scope of the fiduciary duties owed by the defendants to the plaintiff ( and in particular the alleged duty not to put themselves in a position where their duty and their interest conflicted ) are to be defined by the terms of the contract of agency . |
| 26 | ‘ He said to tell you he was working hard on the unknown numbers , and you are not to put yourself in danger of arrest . ’ |
| 27 | But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs . |
| 28 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 29 | They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet . |
| 30 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |