Example sentences of "[verb] themselves for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 2 | The outline agreement they reached recently about the country 's transition to full democracy still has to be discussed at a multi-party forum to be re-convened along the lines of the previous Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) ; but already they are beginning to position themselves for elections which are likely to be a year away . |
| 3 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 4 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 6 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 7 | And those who said they did not find it a strain expressed themselves for example as follows : |
| 8 | But now a couple have volunteered themselves for Gwendolen to adopt . |
| 9 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 10 | First , there is the issue of the mandatory reselection of MPs the idea that all sitting Labour Members should submit themselves for reselection by the local party at least once during the lifetime of each Parliament . |
| 11 | Some owners had tried to plant pines as windbreaks , but they were stunted little trees now , huddling themselves for protection in the shadow of the buildings . |
| 12 | But are there electoral advantages for the opposition to have declared themselves for PR ? |
| 13 | ‘ I am particularly pleased at the number of able women who offered themselves for appointment , ’ he said . |
| 14 | They had demolished Leeds in such a pyschologically damaging fashion on Saturday at Maine Road that Howard Wilkinson 's side were steeling themselves for disappointment . |
| 15 | In accordance with Section 384 ( 1 ) of the Companies Act 1985 , Grant Thornton offer themselves for re-appointment as Auditors of the Company . |
| 16 | In accordance with Section 385 of the Companies Act 1985 , Grant Thornton offer themselves for re-appointment as Auditors of the Company . |
| 17 | In accordance with Article 115 of the Articles of Association they hold office until the Annual General Meeting when they offer themselves for election . |
| 18 | They offer themselves for re-election . |
| 19 | Messrs and both retire by rotation from the Board at the Annual General Meeting and , being eligible , offer themselves for re-election . |
| 20 | In accordance with the Articles of association , Mr. J. Cordingley and Mr. W. G. Cochrane retire by rotation at the Annual General Meeting and , being eligible , offer themselves for reappointment . |
| 21 | Western practitioners who find the idea of putting a price on a kidney unethically distasteful might bear in mind that their fellow citizens are free to damage themselves for profit in other ways , and with medical approval . |
| 22 | This change in posture will alert the other horses who , in turn , will also ready themselves for flight , in case the threat proves to be real . |
| 23 | The anxiety that I will be caught out on the hustings by a clever swine in a corduroy jacket asking ‘ What is the current rate of child benefit ? ’ is one which is shared by all those rash enough to offer themselves for election . |
| 24 | While being called matapang is taken as a compliment among Tagalog-speaking lowlanders , it describes fierce or dangerous men , ready to fight without regard to personal danger , rather than those willing to risk themselves for others . |
| 25 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 26 | OVER THERE , but thankfully not expected here in the near future : US TV audiences are bracing themselves for Roseanne : the cartoon , and an animated series featuring New Kids On The Block … |
| 27 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 28 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 29 | Out of an audience of some three hundred miners and clerks , one hundred and thirty came forward to pledge themselves for purity . |
| 30 | Galvin and C.J.S. Johnson will retire from the Board by rotation , and being eligible , will offer themselves for re-election . |