Example sentences of "themselves with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are permanently based at the Apollo and must acquaint themselves with every scene change of each production . |
| 2 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 3 | Dismissing the assault as a subject of no concern , Joyce turned upon the intellectuals themselves with a promise of what was in store for them . |
| 4 | The answer in Geoffrey Cowdrill 's case was the same one that occurs to numerous middle-aged executives who find themselves with a bit of capital and a lack of inspiration : he invested in a franchise . |
| 5 | The fortunate survivors find themselves with a wealth of food and very little competition in which to grow to their maximum potential . |
| 6 | ‘ Envious of the repute of this outcaste , the priests leagued themselves with a harlot to disgrace him . |
| 7 | All the worshippers in the area dropped to their knees , crossing themselves with a moan half of fear and half of expectation , as Carrefour slipped around the gravestone with a stately grace . |
| 8 | They were , of course , associating themselves with a variety of interpretations of ‘ god ’ , but their actions can very easily be identified as a fight for the adoption of the Second Choice . |
| 9 | Although they have said No , the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs have left themselves with a way out . |
| 10 | And they find themselves with a goalkeeping problem — Mickey Inotta is at Port Vale ; Mickey has this been resolved yet ? |
| 11 | However , by covering themselves with a mixture of fats and waxes secreted by special glands in their skin , the frogs can avoid drying up . |
| 12 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 13 | They would attend parties or receptions ( often fortifying themselves with a drink or two in advance ) , and would frequently dine together . |
| 14 | Also , I believe most students prefer to be introduced to new ideas which they can explore for themselves with a sense of adventure , rather than be led on a Cook 's Tour with every fact and statistic recited . |
| 15 | " The representatives should as soon as possible furnish themselves with a licence , and they can go to any magistrate at hand without any formality requiring a day 's delay " ( Cook v. Gray ( 1891 ) 29 S.L.R. 249 per Lord President Robertson ) . |
| 16 | It is therefore essential that managers and DP professionals should , to be more effective , equip themselves with a knowledge and understanding of the products and strategy behind the IBM environment . |
| 17 | ‘ It is very good for old people and sufferers of arthritis who find it difficult to dry themselves with a towel , ’ says Chris . |
| 18 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 19 | They appeared to ignore him — and organized themselves with a secretariat of their own . |
| 20 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 21 | Outwardly there was a refusal to identify themselves with a class label . |
| 22 | Unlike their daughter , Meg could understand why , after retirement , they had used all their savings to buy the rectory and had in old age burdened themselves with a mortgage . |
| 23 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 24 | ‘ Clownfish cover themselves with a sugar coating to avoid being stung by their anemone ’ What is true is that Clowns do have a polysaccharide mucus coating to mask the protein taste of their mucus — and thus avoid the anemone trigger mechanism which stings on sensing protein . |
| 25 | IN a season of goalkeeping faux pas — namely the blunders of John Lukic and Bruce Grobbelaar in Europe — the weekend 's FA Cup ties surpassed themselves with a collection of laughable errors by lads in the No 1 jersey . |
| 26 | After the items had been sent to the laboratory , Wickham suggested they congratulate themselves with a visit to one of the unprepossessing local pubs . |
| 27 | As far as she was aware , no one had cut themselves or pricked themselves with a needle . |
| 28 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 29 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 30 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |