Example sentences of "[v-ing] yourself in the [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 7 | It also gives time to improve fencing and drainage , extend water supply and renovate buildings without overtaxing yourself in the early stages . |