Example sentences of "and [verb] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 2 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 3 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 7 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 8 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 9 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 10 | As a sign of this substitution the ancient totem meal was revived in the form of communion , in which the company of brothers consumed the flesh and blood of the son — no longer the father — obtained sanctity thereby and identified themselves with him . |
| 11 | When on the ground , they walk on the sides of their clenched feet and support themselves with their hands . |
| 12 | They inflicted wounds on themselves in the sword dance and castigated themselves with ankle whips made of leather and bone , sprinkling the altar of the goddess with their blood . |
| 13 | They appeared to ignore him — and organized themselves with a secretariat of their own . |
| 14 | The fourth : the shops are half-empty but everyone finds enough to eat and clothe themselves with . |
| 15 | After Khrushchev 's ouster in 1964 , his successors avoided the use of bold terms such as pereves ( preponderance ) or ravnovesie ( equilibrium ) which had been fashionable in the early sixties , and contented themselves with less specific formulations depicting the global correlation of forces ( sootnoshenie sil ) . |
| 16 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |
| 17 | When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves , they are not wise . ’ |
| 18 | At the Day School the science tutors left behind their spectrometers , computers and chemicals and equipped themselves with whisks , wine and tantalising samples of their edible ‘ experiments ’ . |
| 19 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 20 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 21 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 22 | Some , notably those with physical disabilities , see integration as a human right ( Reiser and Mason , 1990 ) and align themselves with the views of organisations such as the Centre for Studies in Integration in Education ( CSIE ) . |
| 23 | ( 1981 , p. 8 ) , however , deny the need to specify a theory of conditioning and concern themselves with the empirical implications of the view that changes in attention will be governed by the known laws of classical conditioning . |
| 24 | Then , perhaps , people could say that they were Russian without embarrassment , and concern themselves with the ecological and other needs of their own republic . |
| 25 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 26 | They lack the ability to adapt themselves to , and identify themselves with , the community in which they work . ’ |
| 27 | Instructors should read through all the material before using it with students/trainees in order to get a general idea of thinking and direction , and to familiarise themselves with the layout and organisation . |
| 28 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
| 29 | It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph . |