Example sentences of "themselves out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 2 | ‘ Aids ’ are available to help people pull themselves out of bed , or to put on stockings . |
| 3 | There will , however , be longer-term consequences which flow from those dramatic weeks , which are still working themselves out and which may prove more serious . |
| 4 | According to Jenny Cousins , a psychologist and practising psychotherapist , teaching people to think themselves out of negative and erroneous beliefs about themselves is a standard psycho- therapeutic practice . |
| 5 | If they fail , they will find themselves out of office . ’ |
| 6 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 7 | .0 A SECOND successive goalless draw saw England through to the World Cup finals here yesterday , when Poland practically burned themselves out in an often scintillating hour and yet fanned an ember in the last minute when Ryszard Tarasiewicz 's shot struck Peter Shilton 's crossbar . |
| 8 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 9 | There is no need to apply a means test to applicants for council houses when the building industry has been freed : the lists and the tenancies will ‘ sort themselves out ’ . |
| 10 | In the public sector the government would give each department a cash-limited budget , including a ‘ factor ’ for pay ; ministers claimed that workers , by pushing for ‘ excessive ’ wage rises which employers were unable to pass on in price increases , could price themselves out of jobs . |
| 11 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 12 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 13 | It does not seem that we necessarily are always simply taken , let alone overtaken , by our desires , so that they act themselves out in us as the force of the wind acts on a leaf . |
| 14 | So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state . |
| 15 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 16 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 17 | She came to Salzburg to the festival but refused to let anyone put themselves out for her ; I was enormously impressed by how kind and unassuming she was . |
| 18 | Europe may have turned its back , but the Czechs also sold themselves out as the poles did not . |
| 19 | The ugly reproaches spat themselves out of her mouth , so bitter she could almost taste them . |
| 20 | Descriptions of sea water tend , however lavishly written , to blow themselves out and end up in the doldrums . |
| 21 | What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’ |
| 22 | Should the voters ' verdict prove inconclusive , Whitehall will find itself in a state of unwelcome limbo while politicians sort themselves out . |
| 23 | Maybe even two years , to give them time to sort themselves out in advance of the next Olympics . |
| 24 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 25 | Some chemists are asking how the carbon atoms sort themselves out when making the football structure . |
| 26 | Eventually things even themselves out , as the salt spreads itself evenly between them ; but this takes time , and the movements occur first . |
| 27 | Here the four powers had carved themselves out oddly shaped zones amongst the rubble and devastation left by the Allied bombing . |
| 28 | I can live with the arrangement , I can live with the general idea , and the details will sort themselves out perfectly well . |
| 29 | And she clapped her hands together , and suddenly they all rose in the air , man , woman , house , glass flasks , heap of dust , and found themselves out on a cold hillside where stood the original little grey man with Otto the hound . |
| 30 | When darkness fell , the men drove off up the escarpment and made for the rendezvous , spreading themselves out as widely as possible . |