Example sentences of "of [verb] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 2 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 3 | It was the thought of facing myself in the morning light , followed by a swift but burnished appearance on a TV arts review programme later that day , that had caused me to wake up damp and thudding . |
| 4 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 5 | He kept summoning up more strength to attack the ‘ fatal evil of burying herself in the past . ’ |
| 6 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 9 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 10 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 11 | With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality . |
| 12 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 13 | Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors ! |
| 14 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 15 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 16 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 17 | In the seventeenth century army service had sometimes offered to ambitious men of low birth the prospect of raising themselves in the social scale , and perhaps of acquiring nobility for themselves and their descendants . |
| 18 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 19 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 20 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |