Example sentences of "[be] [verb] themselves in the " in BNC.
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1 | This is the question an increasing number of consumers are asking themselves in the financially straitened Nineties . |
2 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
3 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
4 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
5 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
6 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
7 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
8 | Businesses , says the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in its press ads , are shooting themselves in the foot by not advertising in the recession . |