Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 2 | He was told to unlock the premises and his assailants then helped themselves to a large quantity of cigarettes and cash . |
| 3 | Thieves helped themselves to a number of televisions off the back of a lorry parked at Woodside Cafe , at Knayton , near Thirsk , while the driver had his breakfast . |
| 4 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 5 | On the first day , Chris left out a bowl of fruit and the children — unused to seeing such a wide variety — helped themselves to the lot . |
| 6 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 7 | Six per cent ( 11 ) spoke to a nurse and 1% ( two ) referred themselves to a special clinic . |
| 8 | A significant minority of our survey subjects referred themselves to the GP , drugs counsellor , and so on . |
| 9 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 10 | We note that it came top of the apostles ' agenda when the members of the brand new church ‘ devoted themselves to the apostles ’ teaching' ( Acts 2:2 ) . |
| 11 | The Fabians , Sidney and Beatrice Webb in particular , devoted themselves to the analysis of social and economic conditions . |
| 12 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 13 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 14 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 15 | Thus , at the very moment when the common menace receded , the Twelve committed themselves to a common defence policy . |
| 16 | In June 1991 all EC members except the UK committed themselves to a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent from January 1993 [ see p. 38297 ] . |
| 17 | Under the terms of an agreement , signed on July 14 , the two parties committed themselves to a temporary truce from July 19 to be followed by a complete ceasefire on July 31 . |
| 18 | In 1980 these countries committed themselves to the concept of health for all by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | There was no direct reference to socialism or communism ; the republics that committed themselves to the treaty would rather be bound to respect the principles of democracy , human rights as defined by international agreements , and social justice . |
| 20 | They also agreed to resume constitutional negotiations , suspended since June [ see p. 38948 ] , and committed themselves to the election of a constituent assembly and the inauguration of a non-racial transitional government as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation . |
| 22 | Meeting within the framework of the UN 's Economic Commission for Europe in Prague , Czechoslovakia , ministers also committed themselves to the creation of a pan-European system to disseminate information on environmental issues and the prompt creation of a European environmental agency . |
| 23 | The two sides to the civil war which had raged in the capital , Mogadishu , since mid-November committed themselves to an immediate ending of hostilities at UN-sponsored peace negotiations in New York on Feb. 14 . |
| 24 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 25 | They affiliated themselves to the mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans for their religious authentication , and engaged themselves , like their mendicant counterparts , in active participation of their faith , managing numerous charitable enterprises and conducting their own daily evening devotional services . |
| 26 | When numbers of priestesses dressed in this way and danced themselves to a pitch of religious ecstasy , the sight must have inspired awe among the beholders . |
| 27 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |
| 28 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 29 | Chests like that belonged to a different age , a dangerous age of swashbucklers , and buccaneers who gloried in their toughness , stripped themselves to the elements , and laughed , bare-chested , into the teeth of icy sea-winds . |
| 30 | For 1,000 years the Venetian Republic stood in the forefront of naval power and development , and down the generations ships of every kind , warlike and peaceful , simple and grandiose , displayed themselves to the world in these waters . |