Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 2 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 3 | Since their premises are not open to the public , and they do not engage in retail trade , they are able to establish themselves in locations where overheads are cheaper . |
| 4 | According to the Council 's general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series IX , p. 7 ) , ‘ establishment ’ is defined in terms of ‘ installation en vue d'exercer une activité non salariée sur le territoire d'un Etat membre ’ ( rendered in English as ‘ [ persons wishing ] to establish themselves in order to pursue activities as self-employed persons in a member state ’ ) . |
| 5 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 6 | Sociobiologists are liable to find themselves in confrontation with the cultural and social anthropologists because they are specially concerned with interactions ( especially mating behaviour ) between individual animals which are closely related biologically . |
| 7 | The day after tomorrow they 'll wake up to find themselves in Madeira . ’ |
| 8 | It is relatively rare for accountants to find themselves in trouble , whether legal or ethical , because work they have done has been misinterpreted or misunderstood . |
| 9 | Because beliefs about ourselves are self-fulfilling , these people will continue to find themselves in situations in which they can prove themselves right . |
| 10 | One of the principal objects of the conference was , it declared , ‘ to cultivate a good understanding with the employers and thereby remove those prejudices which exist against trade combinations , by showing that they only seek by combination to place themselves upon equal terms as disposers of their labour with those who purchase it ; to secure themselves from injury , but by no |
| 11 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 12 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 13 | The outline agreement they reached recently about the country 's transition to full democracy still has to be discussed at a multi-party forum to be re-convened along the lines of the previous Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) ; but already they are beginning to position themselves for elections which are likely to be a year away . |
| 14 | However , even if it is a small field , all they have really learned is to position themselves by habit , using the local landmarks to help . |
| 15 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 16 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 17 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 18 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 19 | Not only do they agonize over which of their colleagues deserve which piece of ribbon , they are unafraid to set themselves in judgement upon those whose candidacy for an honour is based upon genuine distinction , perhaps in the arts or by voluntary work . |
| 20 | Plan B meant no plan , however , and having none we were free to react to whims , needing no more than this first glimpse for the wheels to set themselves in motion as we set off down for tea . |
| 21 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 22 | Friends literally reason together in order to organise experience and to define themselves as persons . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , by 1935 , the definitively Stalinised Comintern and its network of party faithful comprised the main organisational basis of Marxism in Latin America , and therefore provided a vital touchstone for all other sectors of the Left , which were forced to define themselves in relation to its characterisation of the Latin American revolution . |
| 24 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 25 | Priests are using the mosque , synagogue , gurdwara , temple , and evangelical church to edge themselves into positions of political as well as spiritual leadership , defining the community 's agenda and power structure , and negotiating with the state for resources . |
| 26 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 27 | ‘ the way in which particular localities must engage in a bitter and divisive struggle to sell themselves to capitals as the most desirable location for their activities in an attempt to defend the right to live , learn and work in their place . ’ |
| 28 | The intention of the ‘ residents ’ was to familiarize themselves with sections of the working class , to develop a sense of contact , both physical and spiritual , between rich and poor . |
| 29 | Chimpanzees are first given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with mirrors and then , when they are under deep anaesthesia , their foreheads or earlobes are marked with a conspicuous spot of rouge or similar material . |
| 30 | Although — most fortunately — not everybody who feels the need to assert themselves against rules becomes a mass-murderer , there is undoubtedly today a widespread feeling that all rules and regulations are onerous and provocative . |