Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller raids which followed on the south-German cities of Munich , Augsburg , and Nuremberg , had a disproportionate psychological effect in demonstrating the extent of allied air supremacy in the capacity to reach so far south , and in illustrating that few could now consider themselves immune from the dangers of bombing . |
| 2 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 3 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 4 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 5 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 6 | Barbs was one of those not unusual women who consider themselves beautiful in the teeth of the evidence . |
| 7 | NP organizers declared themselves delighted with the breadth of support for the government . |
| 8 | Just as the DoE lost its early struggles to get the Electricity Board to accept pollution controls , it fell to the Forestry Commission ( FC ) to pronounce on the state of the nation 's forests , although environment scientists declared themselves convinced of the risk as early as 1982 . |
| 9 | Last season , an overwhelming number of players declared themselves unavailable for the competition , a sure indicator that they set little score on the provincial matches and they think the national selectors do likewise . |
| 10 | Although environmentalists declared themselves disappointed at the outcome of the meeting , they acknowledged that substantial progress towards some form of comprehensive protection for Antarctica 's environment had been achieved . |
| 11 | The staff of Pravda , the leading Soviet newspaper , declared themselves independent of the Communist Party and published their first non-partisan issue on 31 August . |
| 12 | From this point on , Flaubert must have known that any full length novel would probably take him five to seven years ; and therefore that most of his back-burner projects would inevitably boil themselves dry in the pot . |
| 13 | And to compound the problem , the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner 's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding . |
| 14 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 15 | Both leaders expressed themselves pleased with the symbolic importance of the visit , and a joint communiqué , signed late on April 18 , expressed a desire to " promote mutual relations " in trade and other spheres . |
| 16 | But editors who refuse to retract damaging comments after clear proof that they are wildly exaggerated may lay themselves open to the inference from this conduct that they were similarly reckless at the time of the original publication . |
| 17 | Men offered a diplomatic post could not be blamed , as one writer put it , for " choosing rather to fix themselves near to the person of the Prince ; because the recompences for that service are much greater , and much more frequent , and because those that are absent are commonly forgotten , which makes them look upon an embassy as a sort of an honourable exile " . |
| 18 | WITHAM Town A have prised themselves clear of the relegation battle in Division One of the Chelmsford and District Table Tennis League with victories over NatWest A and Maldon A. |
| 19 | THE dream of a good night 's sleep can turn into a nightmare for one in five people who often find themselves awake into the early hours . |
| 20 | Hytner , Warner and Branagh have declared themselves uninterested in the executive hassle of running our large subsidised companies . |
| 21 | Having conspired to ignore the deathbed wishes of Henry 's wife Ruth ( Vanessa Redgrave ) , they leave themselves vulnerable to the forces of emancipation they most dread . |
| 22 | Lewis ( 1931 ) formulated the simple rule that spits orientated themselves perpendicular to the direction of dominant waves ; in practice they are probably never quite at right angles for this orientation would tend to inhibit the longshore drift necessary for their growth . |
| 23 | Then , after rubbing themselves dry on the bath robe , they dressed and climbed the cliff again . |
| 24 | Concurrently with this programme the governors should be making themselves familiar with the roles of centrally based staff who could help them , such as special needs advisers , psychologists and support teachers , and seeking their help in interpreting the authority 's statements on policy and procedures . |
| 25 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 26 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 27 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 28 | Bill ‘ Running Bear ’ Cuthbertson and his braves from Scotland did themselves proud in the semi-final against New Zealand , even better was an untransmittable version of the Highlands ‘ Haka ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 30 | All three made themselves available for the club committee . |