Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 2 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 3 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 4 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 5 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 6 | The nearest neighbours of Ben Nevis , Carn Mor Dearg and Aonach Beag , both have summits above the 4000 mark ; to another of the group , Aonach Mor , the Ordnance Survey rather churlishly ascribes a height of 3999 only , a tribute to their meticulous accuracy but a pity they could not have permitted themselves a slight error of twelve inches . |
| 7 | By the time the last participant cruised into Las Palmas the crew of Eevin had earned themselves an affectionate notoriety . |
| 8 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 9 | What Miandad 's 59 did yesterday was to frustrate England 's struggling bowlers and to set a platform from which Pakistan can give themselves a match-winning lead today . |
| 10 | By moving to pastures new , successful managers can negotiate themselves a new package of options from scratch . |
| 11 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 12 | Costs have got themselves a terrible name , mainly because narrow-minded finance people have concentrated on reducing them in an effort to increase profit . |
| 13 | They take five million pounds out of the scheme as a refund they give themselves a five year contribution holiday and not one penny of that improvement goes to the members . |
| 14 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 15 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 16 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 17 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe they 'll launch a putsch and get themselves a new chairman . ’ |
| 19 | In 1987 , they voluntarily set themselves a worldwide target of reducing air pollution by 90% at the end of 1992 . |
| 20 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 21 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 22 | Men lift their ponchos over one shoulder to give themselves a free arm . |
| 23 | Both the CDU and the SPD sought to give themselves a mass membership , a national organisation and wide popular appeal , though the CDU at first proved far better at fulfilling the last aim . |
| 24 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |
| 25 | With the approach to independence , when the game at last was clearly lost , administrators began to permit themselves a certain degree of cynicism about the loyalty of the Masai . |
| 26 | It was their duty to permit themselves a swift handshake and a kindly word to those , less august than themselves , whose long evenings on the ‘ knocker ’ , canvassing for the party , sustained them in the political positions to which they had become all too easily accustomed . |
| 27 | Nearly 50% of all women allow themselves a once-a-year bet on the horses , according to a recent Gallup survey conducted for the UK 's largest bookmaker , Ladbrokes . |
| 28 | If this knowledge is disseminated widely , and not restricted to already powerful groups , sociology can and must aid members of society to act more knowledgeably , more rationally , with more self-understanding ; it will be a tool aiding people to build themselves a better society . |
| 29 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 30 | Suffocated and uninspired by their hometown , Shake shook themselves up , hopped over to London , grabbed themselves a new moniker and , like , got their heads together in a chaotic kinda way . |