Annais spent the day familiarising herself with her surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

This means familiarising yourself as best as you can with the subject at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Your Research Before Asking For Help | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Vinnie remained in the flat familiarising himself with the technical equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover]

I think I would have to devote a bit of time to familiarising myself but what great potential, heh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free 3D Virtual Worlds for teaching Literature] Reference

In familiarising other groups with their findings, students increasingly assume the role of teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [In praise of collaborative online assignments] Reference

And recurrence brought no mitigation, no familiarising that could temper the acute horror it inspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

In the q and a, away from a text he was clearly still familiarising himself with, he was more convincing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The next Reagan?] Reference

Perhaps your time would be better spent familiarising yourself with current affairs, than surfing the net.    From Wordnik.com.  [BREAKING: Sonassi Media Services Deny Everything] Reference

Government after spending his first ten days here familiarising himself with the situation around Johannesburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Recollective Analysis, because in it the pupil is engaged in familiarising himself with those Laws of Assimilation, and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

I feel free to say, that its study will go a long way towards familiarising boys in our schools with simple idiomatic English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference

LOBITO, Angola, April 18 (Reuter) - British peacekeepers set up their equipment and began familiarising themselves with war-ravaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I like the idea of kids familiarising themselves with situations, especially potentially confusing or upsetting ones, through play.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January « Gin&Comment] Reference

MBC eventually replaced their staff newsletter with a blog, forcing people to use the blog and familiarising them with the blogging format.    From Wordnik.com.  [A day at the Social Media Exchange – 1 « Using technology in the voluntary and community sector] Reference

"We were inadequately prepared for the task we faced and spent the first months familiarising ourselves with the structures and processes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

By familiarising yourself by means of profound methods, whatever disturbing emotions arise totally purify into the sphere (of deep awareness).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Precious Garland for the Four Themes (of Gampopa)] Reference

In their compartments passengers also have the option of familiarising themselves with the places they are passing through by watching short documentary films.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mufamadi said the meeting was a collective assessment of the crime situation in Gauteng and was aimed at familiarising themselves with developments on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The census publicity campaign will be launched in July 1995, and will be aimed at familiarising people with the aims and methods of the census to get their support.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I suspect that my point-of-view rests in my preference for visual description over textual, at least in the very early stages of familiarising myself with a subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stranger In A Strange Land] Reference

To this end, member-governments introduce anticipatory, or pre-harmonising, measures, which cloak the EU's writ in a familiarising semblance of democratic legitimacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

So you'd have to spend a couple of hours familiarising yourself with the highly customisable and beautifully designed interface, but other than that you'll have no problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Ubuntu is Better Than Windows] Reference

Langkawi and familiarising ourselves with the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

During this journey I had ample opportunity of familiarising myself with reindeer travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference

Understand this by familiarising yourself with the rich and wonderful history of our medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magnum Blog] Reference

Nothing helps as much as familiarising yourself with the track and the layout of the level though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurogamer] Reference

Mr. WICKHAM STEED, for his invaluable and untiring exertions in familiarising the public with Jugo-Slav geography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12] Reference

The rest of the day he spent in looking for a room, which he soon found, and in familiarising himself with liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of All Flesh] Reference

This approach goes a long way in familiarising audiences, especially students, with people living with disabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Other units, including Gurkhas, (see pic) have been familiarising themselves with new kit during the five-month preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [UK TOP SECRET Postman Patel] Reference

Now, as it is fairly well known, I have given the greater part of my time, for several years past, to the task of familiarising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference

Students are grabbing on to the number of free online tests available for familiarising themselves with the computer-based format.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

His vacations and his leisure hours during the session were spent in familiarising himself with pending questions in all their aspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Work and Culture] Reference

What a splendid chance for studying the people, for knowing them thoroughly, and for familiarising myself with all their ancient beliefs and thoughts!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference

It was this desire to show her, this hope of familiarising her with the idea that caused Eloquent to resort to every possible place where he might see her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference