Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 3 | At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy . |
| 4 | It is an educational setting that is totally unlike ordinary school , where girls learn to be responsible parents while also expressing themselves like any other fourteen or fifteen-year olds . |
| 5 | The others keened themselves for any sound , for any indication of anyone responding to Silk 's movement — the clink of a grenade pin , the withering blast of a machine gun . |
| 6 | It does mean that they ca n't improve themselves by any small land therefore likely ! evolutionary step : none of their immediate neighbours in the local equivalent of ‘ biomorph space ’ would do any better . |
| 7 | At the same time the GCC instituted collective security arrangements whereby the six , while rejecting outside intervention , would defend themselves against any attack made upon any one of them . |
| 8 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 9 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 10 | Although they paid a fee for the transmission rights , they saw the star-studded line-up as an opportunity to boost viewing figures and distanced themselves from any contentious affiliations by renaming the concert Freedom Festival . |
| 11 | States are prevented from adhering to conventional provisions that operate to their benefit while distancing themselves from any undesired obligations . |
| 12 | It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end . |
| 13 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 14 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 16 | Once in a pond , the adults will attach themselves to any fish , causing the same problems as Argulus , but on a grander scale . |
| 17 | Why do n't you say if you 're a child you can go in a group of three , if your adults you 'll have to be in a group of two , so the children can attach themselves to any group . |
| 18 | The banks having failed to bring themselves within any of the special jurisdictions laid down in article 5 or 6 , article 2 prevails , and Glasgow must be sued in their court of domicile in Scotland . |
| 19 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 20 | But as I said , I 've decided that human beings adjust themselves to any environment to which there is no alternative , and human life in here is the same as in the world outside , for which also there is no alternative . |
| 21 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 22 | In letters to Edward Carpenter written in December 1893 and January 1894 , Robert Blatchford said : ‘ Perhaps I 'm a prejudiced old Tory ; but the whole subject is ‘ 'nasty' ’ to me … if Socialists identify themselves with any sweeping changes in sexual relations the Industrial Change will be seriously retarded . |
| 23 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 24 | When she got back to England , and saw Guy Sterne in the cold , rain-soaked light of an English summer day , stability and common sense and some healthy , protective cynicism would undoubtedly reassert themselves without any effort on her part whatsoever . |
| 25 | The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers . |
| 26 | ‘ 1 just lived as they did and watched how they groomed themselves without any cosmetic aids . |