Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how would the mere existence of Labour Party membership cards in the North prevent the electorate voting themselves into a United Ireland if they so desired ? |
| 2 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 3 | Painting is valuable because people who may have difficulty expressing themselves in words can get some of their feelings down in a picture . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall . |
| 6 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 7 | The General could see that the garrison were having trouble adjusting themselves to the new state of things and so , to give them time , he called for iced sherry and soda to be served . |
| 8 | That at least means that during the season they are out in the countryside throwing themselves in front of Land Rovers every Saturday instead of standing outside Safeway 's screaming abuse at shoppers . |
| 9 | The three ravening bolts of fury launching themselves at him now , presented an entirely more complex problem . |
| 10 | There the cadets made their promises and signed a covenant form binding themselves to the service of God and the Salvation Army " all their days " . |
| 11 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 12 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine people in this country putting themselves through that , no matter how much they love that person . |
| 14 | It is clear , however , that Law Lords while for the most part restricting themselves to the obviously technical are not averse to speaking on social questions like capital punishment , the treatment of offenders and adultery . |
| 15 | I was there to watch the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition selling themselves to potential sponsors . |
| 16 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 17 | Many Danzigers felt that the Nazis could not help them , and at the same time that only the Nazis could help them ; they urged the Party on while at the same time distancing themselves from it . |
| 18 | Outside they could hear the rest of the pack throwing themselves against the timber of the gate and the outer wall . |
| 19 | Unlike sharks , they do n't waste energy preventing themselves from sinking . |