Example sentences of "[v-ing] yourself in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages . |
| 2 | Keep positioning yourself in the correct line while turning your own centre-line towards the opponent . |
| 3 | " finding yourself in a strange room . |
| 4 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
| 5 | Okay , hang on , on finding yourself in a wrong lane at a junction , Dan Dan |
| 6 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 10 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
| 11 | It also gives time to improve fencing and drainage , extend water supply and renovate buildings without overtaxing yourself in the early stages . |