Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 2 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 3 | This created a tendency for the administrator to facilitate the flow of benefits which the state frequently confers upon private enterprise to private businessmen for a return , and , indeed , involve himself in a variety of legal and illegal activities for which the post of senior government servant is advantageous . |
| 4 | Delight yourself in the Lord |
| 5 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 6 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 7 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 8 | Writers on architecture such as J. C. Loudon in the 1830s and George Godwin in the 1840s , interest themselves in the houses of the poor ; while in the latter decade not only Dickens but many other novelists are concerned with a variety of living spaces for which the middle class home , rather than the aristocrat 's , sets the standard . |
| 9 | If you 're a good girl I 'll take you home myself in the morning . ’ |
| 10 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 11 | Say we picture ourselves in a desert and all these people want some water , but one person goes and gets it ? |
| 12 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |
| 13 | We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions . |
| 14 | ‘ At last we are getting the reward for our hard work and we will be challenging for the world title ourselves in a couple of years , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 16 | ‘ And possibly kill himself in the process . ’ |
| 17 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 18 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 19 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |
| 20 | They just let themselves in the back door , he said , took the money and smashed the place . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 22 | But how do rational agents put themselves in a position of being able to anticipate changes in the money stock ? |
| 23 | advice is taking people off , with , in the knowledge that they will not necessarily , er , er , er put themselves in a straight-jacket . |
| 24 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 25 | Or imagine yourself in a peaceful place . |
| 26 | Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden , dancing across the lawns in sheer delight . |
| 27 | Perhaps imagine yourself in a cosy armchair , gazing into a log fire , stroking the cat on your lap and sipping a glass of dandelion wine . |
| 28 | Imagine yourself in a lush , green landscape , with hills rising around you . |
| 29 | Imagine yourself in a room you love . |
| 30 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop . |