Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 2 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 3 | Except , because of the curiously selfless decision by the clubs to vote themselves half the financial liability , that figure is reduced to £3300 , which , divided by 11 , means an average payment per player of £300 . |
| 4 | While other girls with real mothers resisted all the attempts to gentrify themselves , Eve and Mother Francis studied books on etiquette and looked at magazines to see how nice people dressed , and to pick up any hints on behaviour . |
| 5 | The stout plastic sacks are ripped open by sharp beaks , allowing the birds to help themselves to the contents . |
| 6 | Anderson ( N.C. , 1983 ) held that the Board of Visitors should have exercised their discretion to allow legal representation in view of the seriousness of the charges and the potential penalty , the need for fairness between the parties involved and the ability of the prisoners to represent themselves . |
| 7 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 8 | For a few moments she managed fairly well , taking things slowly and steadily , using the sticks to propel herself along . |
| 9 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 10 | It was n't exactly true ; they were n't all rich and middle-class Iranians who had learned to survive the Revolution by paying lip service to it — then bending the rules to suit themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |
| 12 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 13 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 14 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 15 | You 've lo lost all the opportunities to make yourself a bit more money which is what we 're talking about here . |
| 16 | Even at this stage conciliation is encouraged and the EAT is enabled to take such steps as it thinks fit to enable the parties to avail themselves of the opportunity for conciliation . |
| 17 | Choosing a toroidal shape there are still lots of possible ways for the lines to arrange themselves , but in a good permanent magnet the flux lines will be circles with centres at 0 , the centre of the toroid ( Fig. 3.11 ( a ) ) . |
| 18 | Liverpool Labour group member George Knibb said : ‘ What we are asking you to do is for what you believe in for the miners to commit yourselves to for your own workforce . ’ |
| 19 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 20 | They then use the keys to let themselves out , taking the car with them ! |
| 21 | This distinction can be seen as allowing the salesmen to defend themselves through providing a justification for fiddling . |
| 22 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 23 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 24 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 25 | The hijacker threatened to use the grenades to kill himself and all 80 passengers and crew unless he was taken to New York . |
| 26 | The initial experience for any child is just to play with the pieces to familiarise himself with them all and this often takes the form of picture and pattern making — similar to the early use of the other structured apparatus . |
| 27 | She considered the contents to assure herself there was nothing with which she was unfamiliar . |
| 28 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |
| 29 | Get the teams to number themselves . |
| 30 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |