Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 2 | Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming . |
| 3 | They enlisted the help of a rebellious warlord from Vidin , in Ottoman-occupied Bulgaria , Osman Pazvant-oglu , and the governor was able to maintain his position only by arming the Serbs to defend themselves against the invaders . |
| 4 | In the first decade of the century the Bridgewaters aligned themselves with the whigs . |
| 5 | During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 6 | In June 1991 all EC members except the UK committed themselves to a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent from January 1993 [ see p. 38297 ] . |
| 7 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 8 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 9 | With their album completed and , due to legal problems , on ice , The Smiths found themselves in a state of dangerous inactivity . |
| 10 | But the IRA characterise themselves in a more discernible form , participating in movements of national liberation from colonialist powers in recognisable patterns of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political experience . |