Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third qualifying round altered the seeding in such a way that arguably the best sides in the tournament , Namibia and Zimbabwe , found themselves playing each other in the quarter-finals . |
| 2 | All member countries except the UK also committed themselves to translate this commitment into law . |
| 3 | I put them down as a 'No' , eight per cent could n't bring themselves to support this strategy , they are 'Nos ' . |
| 4 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 5 | As families find themselves giving more priority to fixed costs , spending on other resources is squeezed further . |
| 6 | To move beyond this inadequate description , Gross ( 1978 ) argued that we should analyse the social characteristics of corporate criminals first by visualizing what qualities these organizational positions demand , and second by considering whether younger corporate officials who preen themselves to fit this image are more likely to succeed in their career . |
| 7 | And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary . |
| 8 | The key question is : Can the churches open themselves to receive that vision ? |
| 9 | People will find themselves holding more money than they require : their portfolios are unnecessarily liquid . |
| 10 | This is because such households would find themselves holding more money on average to finance the same total value of transactions . |
| 11 | Assuming that the money market is in equilibrium initially , the policy will raise the supply of money above the demand for money , and wealth holders will find themselves holding more money than they desire in their portfolios . |
| 12 | Ahead of them , Balor was lying on the ground and they saw that the Tree Spirits had grouped themselves about him , rather in the manner of people arranging themselves to watch some entertainment , or hear some kind of cause being pleaded . |
| 13 | ‘ Should they not take precautions to prevent themselves inhaling this dust ? ’ |
| 14 | These problems are even more severe when elements of the black community have themselves endorsed this understanding . |