Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 2 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 3 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 4 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |
| 5 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 6 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 7 | Luckily they 've sat themselves on opposite sides of the room . |
| 8 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 9 | It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 11 | Education commission reports past and present have always addressed themselves in varying degrees of rigour to the analysis of educational objectives and it would be possible to collect an impressive dossier of high minded statements of intent . |
| 12 | Human beings form economic relations of many kinds with one another , involve themselves in political relationships or religious ones , live within many kinds of groups , and so on . |
| 13 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 14 | Clearly , there are real problems in equating society' or ‘ community ’ wholly with the limited , if very important , interactions in which people involve themselves in particular localities . |
| 15 | ‘ The staff have really shown their skills in producing this range of foods , ’ said Janet , ‘ and on special occasions , such as Christmas and Easter , they have excelled themselves with superb cakes and eggs . ’ |
| 16 | But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel . |
| 17 | The Swedes helped themselves in 1648 and Josef II held a number of spectacularly philistine art auctions at the end of the 18C . |
| 18 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 19 | Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist : |
| 20 | In the wake of IBM 's fateful decision , the relative handful of customers that had not actively sought all the pricing data available were driven to plug themselves into new information sources . |
| 21 | From such relatively peaceful origins they came , by the end of the century , to undertake external war for their employers , pitting themselves against other such groups ( the Companies or routiers ) , in which might be found not only Italians and Germans , but Flemings , Spaniards , Frenchmen and , at times , a few Englishmen . |
| 22 | Ten or twelve different gods are embodied now , and they are all amusing themselves in different ways . |
| 23 | Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard , landing themselves in serious trouble . |
| 24 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 25 | In 1974 23% of teenagers described themselves as daily smokers . |
| 26 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 27 | And besides , Women 's Word had worked very hard to establish themselves as serious publishers . |
| 28 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 29 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 30 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |