Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 2 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 3 | yeah and that 's the problem with this sort of whatever sort of watch you wanted to do , unless unless we encourage and get the backing of the troops on the ground we 're kicking ourselves in the teeth |
| 4 | So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ? |
| 5 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 6 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 7 | This is the question an increasing number of consumers are asking themselves in the financially straitened Nineties . |
| 8 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 9 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Although we will not be contesting the election in Darlington and Richmond , we shall be involving ourselves in the debate about environmental issues which have attracted scant attention from the other main parties . ’ |
| 11 | Wilkinson said : ‘ I wo n't be throwing myself in the canal over the collapsed deal . |
| 12 | ‘ If I was to insult the contestants I would be shooting myself in the foot . |
| 13 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 14 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 19 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 22 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 23 | ‘ Captain Hook 's drowned hisself in the river , ’ he babbled . |
| 24 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 25 | As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers . |
| 26 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 27 | It is a cry of triumph , greeting God 's showing himself in the midst of his people . |
| 28 | Businesses , says the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in its press ads , are shooting themselves in the foot by not advertising in the recession . |
| 29 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 30 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |