Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 2 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 3 | " It is unlawful for any foreigner to enter the enclosure of the temple which is forbidden to the Jews , except to those of them who are accustomed to enter after purifying themselves in accordance with the law of the country . |
| 4 | What do you feel about actors keeping themselves in step with training once they are in the profession ? |
| 5 | People will have to shift — on their own basis and in their own lives through coaxing and imposing , disengaging themselves from nationality . |
| 6 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 7 | Another possibility is that , by looking like a hawk , cuckoos are protecting themselves from predation — a hawk is less likely to attack another hawk than some other , easier prey . |
| 8 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 11 | As she looked at them squashing themselves into chairs bought for Weenie and Co. , she thought of a story from her French course . |
| 12 | They believe they have found a cheap , practical means of preventing dolphins entangling themselves in monofilament drift fishing nets — the ‘ walls of death ’ believed to be responsible for killing large numbers of dolphins off Cornwall this year . |
| 13 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 14 | Male sexual attitudes were deeply entrenched among senior politicians and civil servants , revealing themselves in suspicion of feminist demands and often in outbursts of anti-feminism and misogyny . |
| 15 | The intellectual influence of the barbarians was , however , felt in the Hellenistic world only to the extent to which they were capable of expressing themselves in Greek . |
| 16 | Painting is valuable because people who may have difficulty expressing themselves in words can get some of their feelings down in a picture . |
| 17 | From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions . |
| 18 | The Ancient Britons surged forward and began forming themselves into lines , Elinor in front as Boudicca in a pretend chariot and Otley as Venutius , the belligerent Brit , consort of our Brigantian Queen Cartimandua . |
| 19 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 20 | The emphasis is still on interests overtly organised in political action , and this occurs to the detriment of a sustained consideration of the implications of inaction , the problem of interests forming themselves into groups , and the whole context of politics and power . |
| 21 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 22 | Forster is a product of those revolutions : he deals with the changes that they brought about , showing women free of the strict codes of respectability and suitability , but defining themselves in pursuit of a new code of emotional truth which still haunts us today . |
| 23 | The Jesus and Mary Chain 's perpetual twilight adolescence , cooped in their bedrooms , steeping themselves in pop and producing , years later , pop of their own , veined ( like Prince 's ) with references and allusions . |
| 24 | What there is evidence of , however , is the hardship that some auditing firms are causing themselves by feeling forced to put in dangerously over-competitive bids . |
| 25 | Well , preventing them filling themselves with drink . |
| 26 | Protestors from the radical environmental group , Earth First , took direct action , chaining themselves to construction gear , in an effort to halt the start of work on the M3 extension at Twyford Down , in Wiltshire [ see ED nos. 52 , 55 ] . |
| 27 | Arrests were made as Earth First ! members adopted the group 's traditional tactics of direct action by chaining themselves to bulldozers . |
| 28 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 29 | They wove across the metallic dunes , submerging themselves like roots , surfacing again , twitching , throbbing sluggishly . |
| 30 | By far the largest concentration is found at Chichester gravel pits , and the only other area at which more than 100 birds have occurred annually is Weir Wood Reservoir ; similar flocks seem now to be establishing themselves at Darwell Reservoir and Rye Harbour gravel pits . |