Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 2 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 3 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 4 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 5 | ROBERT HOPKINS , a young Queensland aborigine , tried to hang himself in a prison cell using a blanket torn into strips . |
| 6 | Who in drunken rage tried to hang himself in the orchard . |
| 7 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 8 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 9 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 10 | We seemed to wrap ourselves in coil after coil of finely spun logic , to raise our pedestal upon a mountain of phrases and formulas and to be unresponsive to the altered mood of those whose opinions we sought to change . |
| 11 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 12 | He 'd locked himself in their room and drunk himself insensible . |
| 13 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 14 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 15 | Yeah , people could just switch off and then it Apple Macintosh erm I think with the Gillette decision was part of the Gillette seemed to reposition themselves in advertising |
| 16 | The man who came to tie himself in chains , slip into a sack and magically — with much heaving and groaning — set himself free , had attracted the usual audience of young children . |
| 17 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 18 | Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , appeared from custody and admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |
| 19 | But it was n't , if you cared to put yourself in my position . |
| 20 | Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena . |
| 21 | At the same time , different peoples , sometimes referred to as barbarians , began to establish themselves in different parts of Europe and evolve their own culture , sometimes Christian , sometimes not , but the former was not necessarily more civilised than the latter . |
| 22 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 23 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 24 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 25 | In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast . |
| 26 | This faction began to organise itself in 1989 at the founding conference of the United Front of Workers ( OFR ) in Leningrad in July 1989 . |
| 27 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 28 | By 1933 , however , with unemployment rising and no solutions visible , public disapproval began to manifest itself in meetings , demonstrations , even strikes . |
| 29 | As the jet continued its descent they began to muffle themselves in fur against the subzero temperature on the snow- and ice-covered ground . |
| 30 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |