Example sentences of "[adj] men [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flames which belched from every opening caused the two struggling men to fling themselves flat on the ground to escape their scorching blast . |
| 2 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 3 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 4 | Every Easter , a number of brave Filipino men allow themselves to be crucified — with real nails driven through their palms — in an attestation of their faith . |
| 5 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 6 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 7 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 8 | These men reconcile themselves to circumstance , make their own compromises with destiny until happier times . |
| 9 | Jewish men make themselves more holy by separating from Jewish women , both to avoid women 's impurity and to seek a holy space for prayer and relation to God , defined by the exclusion of the female . |
| 10 | Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards . |
| 11 | The older men established themselves over by the fireplace . |
| 12 | In fact the day before this instruction was issued to all units , 6 Armoured Division in Italy had already taken the surrender of a group headed by Gen Damjanovic of some 10,000 men describing themselves as Chetniks and Royalists , accompanied by upwards of a thousand civilians , including women and children [ KP 48 ] . |
| 13 | He saw the flash of Osbern 's teeth before the struggling mass all around him was rocked sideways by the shock of the cavalry ; of live men flinging themselves out of its pathway and of dead men thrown after them . |
| 14 | Armed men calling themselves the Death Commandos took some two dozen Supreme Court judges and others hostage in San Jose , the capital of Costa Rica . |
| 15 | But the siege ended peacefully after two unarmed men gave themselves up . |
| 16 | Two men calling themselves Laurel and Hardy threatened to poison tubes of toothpaste unless Colgate handed over £170,000 , the Old Bailey was told yesterday . |
| 17 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 18 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 19 | The prosecution alleges the two men helped themselves to cash , having forced the two cashiers to lie on the floor at gunpoint . |
| 20 | In October 1950 when Lehmann had a reconciliation lunch with Keith Vaughan at the Ivy restaurant after some disagreement , the two men found themselves discussing Minton and Ricky Stride ‘ and the morality of letting a friend ruin himself if that is his deepest impulse ’ . |
| 21 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 22 | Previously , L Detachment had been loosely organized into troops on a raid-by-raid basis as required , certain men attaching themselves to particular officers . |
| 23 | OVERNIGHT care for remand prisoners at Saughton prison in Edinburgh , where four men killed themselves last year , should be reviewed immediately , a sheriff said yesterday . |
| 24 | The rise of the middle-class was not , on the whole , predicated on an aspiration to join the aristocracy , whose way of life , especially during the Regency , met with a good deal of disapprobation ; but it was determined by the resolute intention of the new men to distance themselves in every possible way from the working-class , out of which so many of them had raised themselves . |
| 25 | If Geertz is right that cockfighting is , perceived from a particular angle , an instance of how Balinese men imagined themselves to be , it is an imaginary projection Geertz too uncannily shares . |
| 26 | It ca n't , thought Robert , be good for the personality to have a load of middle-aged men prostrating themselves in front of you and sobbing every time you open your mouth . |
| 27 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 28 | The British ambassador , who was present taking notes , was dismayed by the failure of both men to address themselves frankly and in detail to most of the key issues . |
| 29 | Many Central Asian men consider themselves to be helpful around the house ; fewer women agree with them . |