Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten or twelve different gods are embodied now , and they are all amusing themselves in different ways . |
| 2 | Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard , landing themselves in serious trouble . |
| 3 | " It is unlawful for any foreigner to enter the enclosure of the temple which is forbidden to the Jews , except to those of them who are accustomed to enter after purifying themselves in accordance with the law of the country . |
| 4 | What do you feel about actors keeping themselves in step with training once they are in the profession ? |
| 5 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 6 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 7 | It is a well known fact that sheep in their ruthless determination for world domination are disguising themselves in an effort to infiltrate positions of power . |
| 8 | They believe they have found a cheap , practical means of preventing dolphins entangling themselves in monofilament drift fishing nets — the ‘ walls of death ’ believed to be responsible for killing large numbers of dolphins off Cornwall this year . |
| 9 | Male sexual attitudes were deeply entrenched among senior politicians and civil servants , revealing themselves in suspicion of feminist demands and often in outbursts of anti-feminism and misogyny . |
| 10 | Painting is valuable because people who may have difficulty expressing themselves in words can get some of their feelings down in a picture . |
| 11 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 12 | Yes , but ticky boxes , and expressing themselves in other |
| 13 | The intellectual influence of the barbarians was , however , felt in the Hellenistic world only to the extent to which they were capable of expressing themselves in Greek . |
| 14 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 15 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 16 | Forster is a product of those revolutions : he deals with the changes that they brought about , showing women free of the strict codes of respectability and suitability , but defining themselves in pursuit of a new code of emotional truth which still haunts us today . |
| 17 | Others looted the communion plate from the church , mockingly dressing themselves in the despised Anglican vestments , before that building , too , caught fire , bringing the walls crashing to the ground . |
| 18 | The Jesus and Mary Chain 's perpetual twilight adolescence , cooped in their bedrooms , steeping themselves in pop and producing , years later , pop of their own , veined ( like Prince 's ) with references and allusions . |
| 19 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 20 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 21 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 22 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 23 | It follows from that provision , and in particular from the passage which I have emphasised , that it is necessary to reject the United Kingdom 's argument that no infringement of article 52 has taken place because the nationality requirements do not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom and operating fishing vessels there , but only from doing so under the British flag : British citizens are not subject to that restriction . |
| 24 | Antony has turned the tables completely and has now completely destroyed all hopes of the conspirators ever establishing themselves in Rome . |
| 25 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 26 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 27 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 28 | It could be that this is a time marked by a dearth of characters , or that the smart people in rock are n't interested in self-projection but in obliterating themselves in noise . |
| 29 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 30 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |