Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle . |
| 2 | At the beginning of June the companies began marketing themselves as a ‘ total service ’ to corporate clients , a one-stop-shop for print buyers from desk top to finished brochure . |
| 3 | As to conflict of interest , the judge held that the defendants had put themselves in a position where their self-interest in obtaining commission on both sales might ( not did ) conflict with their duty to the plaintiff . |
| 4 | The ad says that ‘ many emigres have found themselves in a position to assist the FBI in its counterintelligence mission ’ . |
| 5 | How many of you who read these lines have found yourself in a similar predicament , being denied personal recognition for your achievements . |
| 6 | ‘ Lowden Guitars has established itself as a prestige company producing a specialised product for a specialised market . |
| 7 | Although the Republicans had pledged themselves to a tough stand against the Soviet Union , they could not ignore the fact that Stalin 's death in 1953 opened the possibility of improvement in East-West relations . |
| 8 | Most Britons continue to ascribe themselves to a particular class . |
| 9 | In the United States , public relations has divided itself into a great many specialities so that if you want to employ public relations to handle , say , a health issue , you go to someone who specializes in health communications . |
| 10 | ‘ Rangers have played themselves into a good situation and proved we are a decent side . |
| 11 | The MEP , who rode on a motorcycle on an open road for the first time on Saturday , said he was very impressed by the way bikers had organised themselves into a Europe-wide movement . |
| 12 | He said that leadership had been shown and the members had conducted themselves in a disciplined manner with pride and dignity . |
| 13 | And now the one the players have chosen themselves on a split vote is sure to anger the traditionalists . |
| 14 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 15 | The Socialists need to redefine themselves as a definitively ex-Marxist party that is nevertheless keener on social fairness ( and better at keeping Greece green and clean ) than its conservative rival . |
| 16 | There were signs of celebration in Brussels and in Paris last night that the West Germans had committed themselves to a closing date in return for a delay in starting the move to monetary union . |
| 17 | But while some of us console ourselves with the promise of tuition sometime in the future , others decide to immerse themselves in a more intense personal schedule via the Musicians Institute , located in the heart of London 's Docklands . |
| 18 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 19 | Last year Mexico blocked agreement to tighten up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which polices world trade in nuclear fuel , because others refused to commit themselves to a test ban . |
| 20 | However , the counties have locked themselves into a zero sum game as the competitive drive for success at the playing level , in the belief and expectation that it is this which will increase and sustain revenues , together with accompanying bonus incentives inexorably bids up the price of labour . |
| 21 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 22 | Scientists examining alternative approaches are attracted to the idea of using molecules that are chemicals designed to assemble themselves into a film . |
| 23 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 24 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 25 | The Wishplants have shoved themselves into a tight market gap and have found plenty of room to develop . |
| 26 | The mood has been very different from Labour 's controlled and skilfully-packaged press conferences , where Mr Kinnock and his shadow Cabinet colleagues have presented themselves as a government-in-waiting . |
| 27 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |