Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin . |
| 2 | I ca n't name names , but the song concerns a series of people who 'd recognise themselves in there if they examined the lyrics . |
| 3 | To North Korea Japan posed a powerful latent threat : the United States and Japan combined could install themselves in South Korea , boost its economy and armed forces , and encourage subversion against North Korea . |
| 4 | Dulles believed the Russian leaders wanted détente for selfish reasons , to help install themselves in power after Stalin 's death , or to sow division in the West . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Would free themselves in play , |
| 7 | When alarmed , these animals usually try to make for cover , seeking out their burrows or some other hiding place where they can wedge themselves in as tightly as possible . |
| 8 | No Er the girls sort of say things like perhaps ask her , Do you have any We could get on a bit more so they do n't include themselves in what they 're going to do . |
| 9 | Whenever a person is confronted either with death or potential life , they must immerse themselves in a mikva in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 10 | People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all . |
| 11 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 12 | In the pubs , the report added , they would have been ‘ safe … as the pacifists are generally teetotallers who will not show themselves in these abodes of iniquity . ’ |
| 13 | As regards the market within the firm , it is obviously true that managers are frequently competitive by nature and hence will exert themselves in their quest for personal advancement within the organisational hierarchy . |
| 14 | It allows parents to see that the process is not at all mysterious and that it is a device they can use themselves in future for other problems . |
| 15 | But our sources do not for the most part interest themselves in times of peace — the impression from Diodorus ' own narrative is that Dionysius did little but fight wars against Carthage ; but Carthaginian aggressiveness , like Persian , was exaggerated by ‘ crusading ’ Greek historiography and poetry . |
| 16 | Not that anybody would interest themselves in that sort of thing anyway — it simply is n't important , ’ she added rather lamely . |
| 17 | In 1824 a retrospective view regretted as one of the social costs of enclosure that " the poor have no place on which they can amuse themselves in summer evenings , when the labour of the day is over , or when a holiday occurs " . |
| 18 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 19 | When disturbed , they make for a crevice or hole where they can jam themselves in so tight with their powerful claws that it is almost impossible to dislodge them . |
| 20 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
| 21 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |
| 22 | Useful for ro∘le-playing — students can see themselves in situation when the VTR is played back . |
| 23 | They do n't see themselves in competition with each other . |
| 24 | Newspapers , therefore , are the media through which political parties can establish and/or sustain themselves in the minds of the public . |
| 25 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 26 | Whatever promises of anonymity are given , the people involved will recognize themselves in the characters portrayed , and this may cause difficulties . |
| 27 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet . |
| 30 | 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 . |