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Перевод: ingratiate

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1. I spend most of my life trying to ingratiate myself into a sick society rather than trying to smash that society.
2. I made no attempt to impress or ingratiate.
3. Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss, would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
4. He began to smile from exactly the motive Adam had attributed to him, a desire to ingratiate and to defend himself, to turn away wrath.
5. The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer.
6. His policy is to ingratiate himself with anyone who might be useful to him, a nauseating spectacle.
7. It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family, Marquesses of Bath, at nearby Longleat; that may be the case, but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy.
8. He agreed with it all, of course, to ingratiate himself, looking deep into her large, green eyes all the while.
9. Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status.
10. Carter try to ingratiate themselves at our Circulation Not So Bad After All Party, 1990
11. The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra, Bacharach and David, Sondheim, Steely Dan, early seventies' soul, to produce slick, crafted, sophisticated pop.
12. He would get to know the cook and ingratiate himself by being agreeable and doing her favours.
13. The first was over the board's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen: Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy, and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff.