Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 2 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 3 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 4 | Slipping and injuring yourself in the bath is not only painful but life-threatening . |
| 5 | Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages . |
| 6 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 7 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 8 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 9 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 10 | It showed a girl by a sunlit window with her back turned , apparently drying her loins and watching herself in the mirror at the same time . |
| 11 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 12 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |