Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 2 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 3 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 4 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 5 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 6 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 7 | As in the 1987 general election , the Conservatives were readier to put themselves on the line — to be made fools of , as might be , by voters and journalists . |
| 8 | After the Istanbul Biennale last autumn , it is the turn of the Greek art dealers to make a bid to put themselves on the international map . |
| 9 | This I think is actually more likely to get people to register to vote , I think regardless of any party affiliation you all have something to benefit from that and I suspect the vast majority of members of the council will see that any well designed leaflet that gets people to put themselves on the register is to the benefit of democracy . |
| 10 | Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind . |
| 11 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 12 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 13 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 14 | The Government are in an extraordinarily poor position to congratulate themselves on an annus mirabilis . |
| 15 | It was crowded too with holiday-makers on package tours , all eager to fling themselves on the nearest beach and sweat their way into a tan . |
| 16 | But by telling them to take themselves on the bikes it keeps them occupied . ’ |
| 17 | This would require companies to be able to merge across frontiers and be able to organize themselves on a Europe-wide basis without discrimination . |
| 18 | The British commandos in the Second World War did n't bother to teach their men how to defend themselves on the ground because they felt that , even in an unarmed fight , the chances of survival were minimal once anybody went down . |
| 19 | He directed Cleo and Dauntless to seat themselves on a bench at the table . |
| 20 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 21 | A new breed of men had emerged from the vague grey ranks of the judiciary to stamp themselves on the nation 's consciousness : the glamorous investigating magistrates and Public Prosecutors who were to be seen on the news every evening leading the fight against political violence and organized crime . |
| 22 | These may consist of able musicians who are unwilling or unable to commit themselves on a regular basis . |