Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’ |
| 2 | Redknapp , son of West Ham assistant boss Harry , has forced his way on to the England scene after establishing himself in the Liverpool side this season . |
| 3 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 4 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 5 | My father , after indulging himself in The Towers , invested what was left in stones . |
| 6 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 8 | It was the thought of facing myself in the morning light , followed by a swift but burnished appearance on a TV arts review programme later that day , that had caused me to wake up damp and thudding . |
| 9 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 10 | He kept summoning up more strength to attack the ‘ fatal evil of burying herself in the past . ’ |
| 11 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 12 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 13 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 14 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 15 | With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality . |
| 16 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 17 | Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors ! |
| 18 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 19 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 20 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 21 | In the seventeenth century army service had sometimes offered to ambitious men of low birth the prospect of raising themselves in the social scale , and perhaps of acquiring nobility for themselves and their descendants . |
| 22 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 23 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 24 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 25 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 26 | It 's like seeing myself in the shadows there , all choked up . |
| 27 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 28 | ‘ You had indeed , ’ Feargal said with an ironic little bow before seating himself in the armchair opposite his mother . |
| 29 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 30 | It follows from that provision , and in particular from the passage which I have emphasised , that it is necessary to reject the United Kingdom 's argument that no infringement of article 52 has taken place because the nationality requirements do not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom and operating fishing vessels there , but only from doing so under the British flag : British citizens are not subject to that restriction . |