Example sentences of "themselves [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 2 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 3 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 4 | In an attempt to grab the Republicans ' ‘ hot-button ’ issue , the Democrats are now dressing themselves up as the anti-quota party . |
| 5 | The rest divided themselves up amongst the remaining transport and set off with only enough petrol to cover the 400 miles to Jalo . |
| 6 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 7 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 8 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 9 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 10 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 11 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |