Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 2 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
| 3 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 4 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 5 | His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly . |
| 6 | ‘ So why did n't you just look for another job , instead of involving yourself in such a risky undertaking ? ’ |
| 7 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 8 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 9 | It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk . |
| 10 | Er opposed to God and of which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those men in every generation , who have sin to be the blatant opponents of God . |
| 11 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 12 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 13 | She gets a certain amount of amusement from describing herself in this way , but the verbal presentation of self has a serious purpose : |
| 14 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 15 | If this occurs , try to contain such behaviour by discouraging anyone from sexual activity or from exposing themselves in public . |
| 16 | For the army of Alba , it seemed , was not at all unprepared for the sudden emergence of the enemy from the wood and only waited politely , as before , for the troublesome stream to be crossed , together with a number of novel earthworks of Bishop Hrolf 's devising , before throwing itself in neat but different formation against Siward 's lines . |
| 17 | He has shown courage in exposing himself in public to the danger . |
| 18 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 19 | It was aimed at enabling Britain to remain a decisive player in Western Europe without committing itself in any way to supranationalism . |
| 20 | The truly self-employed works quite independently , without involving himself/herself in any form of wage work . |
| 21 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 22 | Could he not withdraw the promise on finding himself in straitened circumstances , or on falling out with P , or because she had married a wealthy man ? suppose then that D's promise is to pay the money ’ so long as you remain unmarried . ’ |
| 23 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 24 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 25 | You can learn how to be a better decision-maker , how to plan and organize things efficiently , how to relax , how to take your mind off your problems by engrossing yourself in other things . |
| 26 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 27 | The union had sought to frustrate the lock-out by the masters of its members by engaging itself in co-operative production . |