Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
2 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
3 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
4 | With the slump in building work , the market forces reversed and contractors found themselves in a fiercely competitive market with tenders very keenly priced . |
5 | Susan told herself that she must keep calm , must n't let nerves and muscles knot themselves into the familiar ache of worry . |
6 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
7 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
8 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
9 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
10 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
11 | Bizarrely , the fun is punctuated by impromptu shower shows ( yes , really , the restaurant has two showers installed in telephone boxes ) of waterbabes and boys working themselves into a lather . |
12 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |