Example sentences of "[verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 2 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 3 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 4 | Supporters of this option claim it reinstates the spectacle of demo-cracy , while critics content themselves with pointing out that it is currently used in Iceland , Bosnia , and parts of Turkey . |
| 5 | In the Sixties people worked hard and behaved themselves — except the police , of course . |
| 6 | Qaddafi had done good things : they had schools , hospitals , policemen who behaved themselves . |
| 7 | Great was the pleasure of the Cid at seeing how well they behaved themselves . |
| 8 | Sanders Island was virtually independent and so were the other islands of the archipelago , providing they behaved themselves . |
| 9 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 10 | ‘ The decent people clapped like hell , and the rogues behaved themselves . |
| 11 | ANNADALE came from behind to beat Glasgow Western 2-1 at Blaris this afternoon , booking themselves a place in tomorrow 's semi-finals against either Lisnagarvey or Ballynahinch . |
| 12 | They are voluntarily shrinking themselves , cutting workforces and branch networks . |
| 13 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 14 | Parents will have learned how to observe the child , but they also need to learn how to observe themselves . |
| 15 | By remixing and adding new parts to certain sections they have successfully managed to reinvent themselves . |
| 16 | There are some people who attract fear , who gather things to worry about , to frighten themselves and to avoid behaving differently . |
| 17 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 18 | By Christmas all three main opposition parties had dissolved themselves . |
| 19 | All four formations had previously dissolved themselves and " transferred " their political activities and assets to the new party . |
| 20 | They do not have to do down rivals in order to benefit themselves . |
| 21 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 22 | The experience of being there was a very profound , private and personal time , each person must feel something to benefit themselves . |
| 23 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 24 | Labour politicians fear estate agents carrying out the valuations will push prices up to benefit themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 26 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 27 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |
| 28 | For what else could so many well-connected old buffers do if not manoeuvre themselves into and around the Senate ? |
| 29 | The rest , some sick of national stereotyping , listed themselves as Yugoslavs , Turks , Jews , Gypsies , Eskimos , Giraffes or Lampshades . |
| 30 | This view is supported by the strong commitment of College staff ( 9 out of 13 institutions had 6+ staff with a prime commitment to language ) , whereas only 4 universities listed themselves as having even 1–2 people primarily committed to Language in Education . |