Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 2 | Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it . |
| 3 | In the flat land of the Delta the babies cry themselves to sleep in the airless shade , while everyone else labours in the scintillating sun . |
| 4 | Tess let herself relax in his arms in a moment of joyful surprise . |
| 5 | You have a lot to lose , thought Jay , rolling a cigarette , and you know damn well you might have to , or at least turn it all upside down if you let yourself fall in love with me . |
| 6 | It 's far better to ruin a feather pillow than let yourself overflow in violent behaviour . |
| 7 | In so doing , they imagine themselves set in diametrical opposition to their society where in fact they have unwittingly accepted its crucial structural elements . ’ |
| 8 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 9 | How individuals view themselves depends in part on whom they compare themselves with . |
| 10 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 11 | Giesecke himself arrived in Leith in October 1813 dressed in furs and feathers , his European clothes having perished . |
| 12 | He went not to collect particulars and feed them into a computer , he went to get down on his knees and get himself covered in mud and blood . |
| 13 | In common with other facilities of LIFESPAN , SPRs and SSRs are retained in magnetic form for as long as the objects to which they refer themselves exist in magnetic form . |
| 14 | I hear myself scream in the treble , and , Ahhh ! and Ahhh ! again . |
| 15 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 16 | We therefore find ourselves living in disputed territory . |
| 17 | So we find ourselves drawn in very easily . |
| 18 | We find ourselves compelled in practice to start from inclination as from perception , questioning inclinations like perceptions only when they conflict , without reason having authorized the initial step . |
| 19 | Soon we find ourselves immersed in geodesics , hyperspheres , dimensionality , curvature and ideas of general relativity . |
| 20 | It is disappointing that , although there is an internationally recognized symbol for information ( the small letter ‘ i ’ ) , this could not in some way find itself incorporated in either of these logos . |
| 21 | To come all this way and find herself staying in the house of people with the same name as those she was trying to trace ? |
| 22 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 23 | I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible . |
| 24 | I know some folk wo n't change for anybody they just go harping on in their dialect and er well this fellow said some visitors just do n't understand him I always find myself translating in a situation like that . |
| 25 | You know I have to admit my knowledge of your country is abysmally small — but the more I see of it , the more I find myself falling in love with it . ’ |
| 26 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 27 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 28 | They would sip sherry or port , nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness . |
| 29 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 30 | This means that you often find yourself moving in the opposite direction to the one intended which , of course , is extremely annoying . |