Example sentences of "[verb] themselves in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 2 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 3 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 4 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 5 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 6 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 7 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 8 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 9 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 10 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 11 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 12 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 13 | With these qualities they well be fully prepared for the big trial , but they must also know themselves in the deepest sense — ‘ to be in touch ’ , as Scott frequently mentions , ‘ with that critical inner voice . ’ |
| 14 | Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province , democracy was n't mentioned . |
| 15 | People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all . |
| 16 | Women use pieces of attire … to reinscribe themselves in the patriarchal system … . |
| 17 | They just let themselves in the back door , he said , took the money and smashed the place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 22 | The effects showed themselves in the occupational culture of the force , in senses of threat and danger among members , and in a range of low-key security duties which merged with routine police work . |
| 23 | Get yourself ready , and we 'll see how they enjoy themselves in the Big House . ’ |
| 24 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 27 | They both laughed , and settled themselves in the open-plan sitting-room . |
| 28 | When temporary workers responding to the British Labour Force Survey were themselves invited to differentiate between these two groups , two-thirds placed themselves in the first category . |
| 29 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 30 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |