Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.

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1 After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’
2 Redknapp , son of West Ham assistant boss Harry , has forced his way on to the England scene after establishing himself in the Liverpool side this season .
3 Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces .
4 The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container .
5 My father , after indulging himself in The Towers , invested what was left in stones .
6 Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world .
10 He kept summoning up more strength to attack the ‘ fatal evil of burying herself in the past . ’
11 " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors !
19 ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things .
20 What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow .
21 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 ? ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ?
25 A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday .
26 WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue .
27 It 's like seeing myself in the shadows there , all choked up .
28 It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs .
29 As there was no piano in the field , Betty recorded her own music but , on the day , the only power to plug the recording machine into presented itself in the shape of an ice cream van .
30 ‘ You had indeed , ’ Feargal said with an ironic little bow before seating himself in the armchair opposite his mother .
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