Example sentences of "they could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 2 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 3 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 4 | Many Yugoslav army officers had asked how they could put themselves at the disposal of the government , he said . |
| 5 | Officers would perform excellent service if they could put themselves in a position to receive information which could be translated into proceedings before a jury . |
| 6 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |