Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] themselves in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river . |
| 2 | These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle . |
| 3 | Or worse : they might have found themselves in a tit-for-tat war with DeVore 's lieutenants . |
| 4 | Having put themselves in an extraordinary environment , which nevertheless feels so homely and ordinary , the members occasionally come into contact with wider , more powerful and less homely influences . |
| 5 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 6 | Our spare room ( with the toys in ) was unfortunately impenetrably filled with sitting-room furniture ( the sitting-room is awaiting redecoration ) , but the boys managed to entertain themselves in the empty sitting-room instead . |
| 7 | There was , they believed , no reason ‘ why competent knowledge and critical skill , if encouraged to exercise themselves in the disinterested pursuit of truth , should be less fruitful in religious than in social and physical ideas ’ . |
| 8 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 9 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 10 | He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who 've found themselves in a religious dilemma . |
| 11 | He said that leadership had been shown and the members had conducted themselves in a disciplined manner with pride and dignity . |
| 12 | One day everyone was laughing and singing in the Delhi gardens , covering each other with pink powder and coloured Holi-water ; the next they had imprisoned themselves in the silent air-conditioned purdah of their bedrooms and offices , waiting patiently for the reprieve of evening . |
| 13 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 14 | Indeed , successful environmental scanning draws attention to possible changes and events well before they have revealed themselves in a discernible manner . |
| 15 | ‘ They said they were so impressed — and now that green issues are moving up their agenda , they 've become aware that they have to run themselves in a green way — that they are committing three million dollars into researching ‘ golf and the environment ’ , and appointing an ecologist to lead the research . ’ |
| 16 | From Eddie Murphy to Richard Pryor , black American comedians have established themselves in the comic maintstream . |