Example sentences of "and [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards . |
| 2 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
| 3 | In some minutes the short hairs on the disc of the leaf began to bend , then the long hairs , and laid themselves on the insect . |
| 4 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
| 5 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 6 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 7 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 8 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 9 | Departments , including costume and design , have started to operate the system , in which they cost their own services and sell themselves to BBC programmes . |
| 10 | In the same debate Mr Mellor restated the government 's intention of encouraging local authorities to make greater use of the private and voluntary sectors and to see themselves as enablers rather than providers . |
| 11 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 12 | To all this , modern man has now added creatures from outer-space which can be grouped under the general category of UFOs ( Unidentified Flying Objects ) , some of which have reputedly landed and disguised themselves as human beings . |
| 13 | They float right through the glass and make themselves at home . |
| 14 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 15 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 16 | In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up . |
| 17 | Former land owners could still gain full compensation for land up to a value of 1,000,000 forint if they undertook to cultivate the land for five years and registered themselves as entrepreneurs under a system of " entrepreneurial assistance " . |
| 18 | I hope I can encourage the uninitiated to go out and treat themselves to several for their Christmas stocking as well as see the value of videos as a valid support technique during the long winter evenings ahead . |
| 19 | Creatures often seem to have gone out of their way to find him and display themselves to him . |
| 20 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 21 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 22 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 23 | Once installed , tenants were regularly visited by voluntary lady rent-collectors whose task was to advise tenants on the management of the household or other aspects of their lives — how to sweep their floors , wash their children and clothing and to conduct themselves with propriety . |
| 24 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 25 | In some African tribes women gather together , apart from men , laughing and enjoying themselves during their time apart . |
| 26 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 27 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 28 | There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) . |
| 29 | They flittered down the stairs , Ginger Rogers a deux , and draped themselves round the nearest male , an elderly , pale faced banker — ‘ Allo , ’ they purred , ‘ 'Ow do you like sex ? ’ |
| 30 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |