Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
2 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
3 | The general health of older people might be improved if they were able to rid themselves of the many ageist attitudes that surround the issue , and were able to feel more positive about their health prospects . |
4 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
5 | There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious . |
6 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
7 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
8 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
9 | One of his bands are at the Paprika tonight ; they are called Dance Lance and they consist of three limber , head-shaven , androgynous boys who all knight themselves with the same name , which is Ron . |
10 | On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony . |
11 | These were articulate people , perhaps better able to deal with the press and media than some other families who have found themselves in the same position . |
12 | As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work . |
13 | Most advocates of biological theories do not express themselves in the same bizarre language and style as Lombroso , and such theories of crime are not merely historical relics that died with Lombroso . |
14 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
15 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
16 | " All communities divide themselves into the few and the many . |
17 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
18 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
19 | However , those in the manufacturing sector and , more particularly , those in more highly skilled positions , are more likely to place themselves in the latter category . |
20 | An untapped telephone number was to be communicated to the gang , who would use it to pass on further details , identifying themselves by the same method they had used with Valesio . |
21 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
22 | When two guanine bases are side by side in the DNA chain , both can attach themselves to the same platinum atom , forming a stable complex . |
23 | Many foreign brands have established themselves in the former Soviet Union for the sake of the publicity , but Baskin-Robbins becomes one of the few to commit themselves to manufacturing there . |
24 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |