Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 2 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 3 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 4 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 5 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 6 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 7 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 8 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 9 | He was told to unlock the premises and his assailants then helped themselves to a large quantity of cigarettes and cash . |
| 10 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 11 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 12 | The trees stooped groundward under the weight of their snow-laden branches and the humans followed their daily work , once again pitting themselves against the inexorable forces of Nature . |
| 13 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 14 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 15 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 16 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 17 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 18 | As he spoke he slipped into the description of what had been achieved , emphasizing that staff , increasingly , described themselves as a single body ( " what we say clearly … " , " what we need to do next … " ) . |
| 19 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 20 | This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit . |
| 21 | The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force . |
| 22 | The opening in time for August Bank Holiday Monday , possibly the busiest day of the year for Darlington shops , would give businesses the chance to establish themselves before the pre-Christmas onslaught in mid October . |
| 23 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 24 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 25 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 26 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 27 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 28 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 29 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 30 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |