Example sentences of "themselves in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a sunset on the Atlantic , after a prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled , and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night . |
| 2 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 3 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 4 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 5 | Had John Dorahy not rashly attempted a dropped goal on the first tackle in the closing stages , the Second Division side might have found themselves in the final . |
| 6 | But I do n't see why they should be asked to shoot themselves in the foot by paying to train a competitor 's workforce , and neither do they ! ’ |
| 7 | If ministers spend this week in Blackpool trying to paint the Labour Party red again — as Kenneth Baker seems to intend — they will have missed the point and further demeaned themselves in the eyes of the public . |
| 8 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 9 | General Galtieri 's release underlines the fact that the Argentine armed forces may have learned nothing and forgotten nothing , but , by dint of constant pressure on Argentina 's elected leaders , they have moved closer to their goal of rewriting history with themselves in the role of hero . |
| 10 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 11 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
| 12 | But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity . |
| 13 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , in the course of talking and pretending , the sovereign states can harm themselves in the real exercise of real power . |
| 15 | But also , in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality , men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence ( Genevora to the duellists ) : ‘ The first blow given betwixt you , sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes ’ ( 177 — 8 ) . |
| 16 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 17 | When people from this background find themselves in the middle of an industrial set-up , it is not easy for them to adjust their values or frames of reference , just as people from an industrial society , used to individual wages and jobs , would feel confused if suddenly thrust into a peasant society . |
| 18 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |
| 19 | ‘ Members of the community are themselves in the course of events engaged in a great deal of informal social control , ’ he said . |
| 20 | We believe the police in general should be commended for the professional way they conducted themselves in the face of provocation . ’ |
| 21 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 22 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 23 | By exposing the workings of pop ( the way myth is stagemanaged , the way glamour is constructed ) the new pop entryists actually deny the listener the chance to lose themselves in the ‘ commodity fetishism ’ they purport to celebrate . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province , democracy was n't mentioned . |
| 26 | They just let themselves in the back door , he said , took the money and smashed the place . |
| 27 | Everyone knows that , and the Israelites discovered it for themselves in the wilderness . |
| 28 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |
| 29 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 30 | ‘ Men of genius and goodness are generally restless in their minds in the present , and this , because they are by a law of their nature unremittingly regarding themselves in the future , and contemplating the possible of moral and intellectual advance towards perfection . ’ |