Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 10 | This was the situation P&O Containers , Australia , found themselves in after the acquisition of Associated Container Transportation ( Australia ) Ltd ( ACTA ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 16 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 17 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 18 | Onto another club trying to pull themselves out of the doldrums … |
| 19 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 20 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |
| 21 | Erm and a lot of them , straddled themselves out on the pavement erm in groups of s thirty , forty people along Avenue . |
| 22 | In an attempt to grab the Republicans ' ‘ hot-button ’ issue , the Democrats are now dressing themselves up as the anti-quota party . |
| 23 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 24 | Certain snakes and lizards are highly efficient at wriggling themselves down into the sand or gravel in such a way that only the tops of their heads and their eyes remain exposed to view . |
| 25 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 26 | Jensen have priced themselves out of the market in the recession . |
| 27 | And monthly-payment forms of credit , also generally cheaper , tend to rule themselves out for the reasons given above . |
| 28 | When Mrs Gaskell herself went to stay with a duke , her daughter , Meta , suggested that they should dress themselves up in the bed curtains ‘ of thick white satin stamped with little rosebuds ’ . |
| 29 | This ensures that , if you suddenly pull the throttle stick hard back and drop the model onto the ground very hard , the blades will still be lifting and not pushing themselves down towards the tailboom . |
| 30 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |