Example sentences of "[verb] themselves with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 2 | Someone must always have discharged these duties ; but the mention of these officials in eleventh-century households pointed to two developments : firstly , a conscious imitation of Carolingian ways ( for Charlemagne and his heirs had surrounded themselves with seneschals and stewards ) , and secondly , a revived interest in administration . |
| 3 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 4 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 5 | Warfare was the means by which the upper classes provided themselves with exercise and occupation , and justified their existence . |
| 6 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 7 | Patients are advised to eat regular meals , avoid certain foods , take tablets or inject themselves with insulin , monitor their blood glucose levels , to be careful with alcohol and see their doctors regularly . |
| 8 | Because administrators depended on their lord 's favour , they devoted themselves with vigour to Promoting his interests . |
| 9 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 10 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 11 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 12 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 13 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 14 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 15 | They inflicted wounds on themselves in the sword dance and castigated themselves with ankle whips made of leather and bone , sprinkling the altar of the goddess with their blood . |
| 16 | A few people were on the platform , the station staff busied themselves with mail bags and other items of luggage and parcels , at last the guard blew his whistle . |
| 17 | While Muhammed Shah and his circle busied themselves with amusement , Safdarjung consolidated his position . |
| 18 | Well , preventing them filling themselves with drink . |
| 19 | According to legend , the ancient Britons painted themselves with woad to frighten their enemies but , almost certainly , this was not the only reason for so doing , since it is a styptic , i.e. it has the power to stop bleeding . |
| 20 | The intention of the ‘ residents ’ was to familiarize themselves with sections of the working class , to develop a sense of contact , both physical and spiritual , between rich and poor . |
| 21 | Chimpanzees are first given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with mirrors and then , when they are under deep anaesthesia , their foreheads or earlobes are marked with a conspicuous spot of rouge or similar material . |
| 22 | Some of these demonstrators , by their own later accounts , armed themselves with razor-blades or with knuckle dusters bought from ironmongers . |
| 23 | But far from being cowed by this event , the market women picked up their dead and wounded , armed themselves with stones , sticks and knives and counter-attacked . |
| 24 | No wonder there was no inheritance for the children and they must scrape themselves with newspaper and redden their pampered fingers in icy water now that the goose who laid the golden eggs was dead . |
| 25 | They should ally themselves with health service workers ( including managers ) and inspire them to help analyse the determinants of good and bad health , assess health needs , promote health , and evaluate services , thereby achieving public health goals , albeit indirectly . |
| 26 | At this Wullie Robertson 's band struck up , several yobs having armed themselves with tin trumpets . |
| 27 | The patients on the benches fanned themselves with newspapers . |
| 28 | Because the mood in Japan is changing , and candidates want to identify themselves with reform . |
| 29 | Warm-blooded animals that live in cold water , such as whales , seals , and penguins , insulate themselves with layers of fat ( blubber ) , and reduce the blood flow to the surface . |
| 30 | Special treat : surrounding themselves with plastic ship models and watching Tora ! |