Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 2 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 3 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 4 | Most academics involved in the study and teaching of local government lined themselves up behind the councils which they perceived to be under threat , in a centrally inspired attack on local democracy and local autonomy . |
| 5 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 6 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |
| 7 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 8 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 9 | The combination has impelled manufacturing and service enterprises in almost all sectors to search for larger markets abroad , and to establish themselves there in an ‘ insider position ’ ( Best , 1990 : p. 260 ; Milner and Yoffie , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 11 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Separate toilets for younger children , staggered playtimes or separate playgrounds for under-fives also mark schools that are really gearing themselves up to the educational needs of these younger pupils . |
| 13 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 14 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 15 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 16 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 17 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 20 | After a stagnant half-hour the game sparked into life and Thistle quickly found themselves behind to a Kirk shot from a Davie Cooper cross , and a fine Paul McGrillen strike after magnificent work by Phil O'Donnell on the left . |
| 21 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 22 | First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle . |
| 23 | This was the situation P&O Containers , Australia , found themselves in after the acquisition of Associated Container Transportation ( Australia ) Ltd ( ACTA ) . |
| 24 | In practice the bulk of the work done by the Sûreté was not criminal investigation at all but political control … and its agents , not trained as professional detectives with clearly-prescribed answerability before a judicial authority , generally stood in low public esteem ; they were never concerned with safeguarding the personal safety and private property of Vietnamese villagers and seem to have considered themselves primarily as a network of agents to watch over the interests of the French state . |
| 25 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 26 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 27 | They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up . |
| 28 | Peel quotes evidence that the raging streamfloods and sheetfloods mentioned above are the exceptions that have impressed themselves strongly on the mind of chance , lucky observers . |
| 29 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 30 | Some plasmids are capable of splicing themselves seamlessly into a chromosome . |