Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 2 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 3 | Since migrants and alien communities obliged to leave en masse usually return to their countries of origin , they are not usually technically refugees ; nevertheless they may find themselves in refugee-like situations . |
| 4 | Propaganda by itself was insufficient ; they must involve themselves in social agitation and make it known that the republicans were involved : |
| 5 | But we do have a measure of optimism that they might reflect themselves in further years like ninety two/ninety three and onwards . |
| 6 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 7 | They might establish themselves in some suitable centre of social life for a while , as that Latin-American family did which the Paris Guide of 1867 records as arriving with eighteen wagons of baggage . |
| 8 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 9 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 10 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 11 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 12 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 13 | ‘ They feel they can distinguish themselves with greater transparency between PS/2s , AS/400s and mainframes , with less translation and overhead . |
| 14 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 15 | It is a tradition which emphasises a commitment to the working class as a section of society which should be the object of positive discrimination so that they can avail themselves of educational resources and opportunities . |