Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] themselves [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 2 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 3 | She bit her lip as her own words flung themselves back in her face . |
| 4 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 5 | Three blurred shapes lowered themselves down on to the concrete and sped away . |
| 6 | It was the only time Oxford 's fans let themselves down , but order was soon restored . |
| 7 | In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in , a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed . |
| 8 | A group of , let's say larger , teenagers manoeuvred themselves through and fell onto the hard , plastic seats on the right-side of the café . |
| 9 | Its leaves , although they might be petals , hardly quiver at all as three very small and very golden frogs pull themselves up and gaze in astonishment at the fresh clear water . |
| 10 | They 'd love to see the Yanks dig themselves out of this hole . |
| 11 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 12 | Perhaps Twenty-fourthers hired themselves out on a contract basis to anyone wanting to lean heavily on un-Islamic behaviour . |
| 13 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 14 | They then use the keys to let themselves out , taking the car with them ! |
| 15 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 16 | His limbs pulled themselves up at ridiculous angles . |
| 17 | Two young Muslim Indians blew themselves up in Johannesburg in |
| 18 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 19 | The cottage gardeners of old allowed their plants to seed themselves around to produce that chaotic , yet much cherished effect . |
| 20 | Before selling , many dealers psyched themselves up . |
| 21 | Some chemists are asking how the carbon atoms sort themselves out when making the football structure . |
| 22 | The pilots sorted themselves out , and tried to find something to hang on to . |
| 23 | In St Albans last year two IRA terrorists blew themselves up as they were planting a 5lbs to 7lbs Semtex bomb destined for Royal Marines bandsmen . |
| 24 | My grandfather , who kept a small number of sheep in the West Riding , used to talk about strains breeding themselves out . |
| 25 | The hijackers gave themselves up after receiving assurances that they could seek asylum elsewhere . |
| 26 | The rebels gave themselves up to loyal officers later that day . |
| 27 | The pilots dragged themselves over , and blinked painfully at the tableau , harshly delineated by the pressure lamps . |
| 28 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 29 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 30 | Eventually things even themselves out , as the salt spreads itself evenly between them ; but this takes time , and the movements occur first . |