Example sentences of "themselves [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sufferers have been known to jog themselves literally to death , despite being told by doctors of the specific risks they would incur by taking further exercise . |
| 2 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 3 | Some devoted themselves solely to classification , although others became interested in geographical problems and in the relationship between species and their environments . |
| 4 | This has its merits and has been the practice in Sweden , but it is of value only if the central government departments then restrict themselves purely to planning , thinking and regulating . |
| 5 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |
| 6 | While pledging themselves publicly to legislation , they worked privately to block many of the attempts to secure new acts and statutes . |