Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 2 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 3 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 4 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 5 | And Y ? is the reason I can not find a genuinely happy ending to this story ; there seems to be a choice between adding poisonous chemicals and not — both of which apparently lend themselves to doom and disaster for the earth and its creatures , rather than sweetness and happiness ever after . |
| 6 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 7 | They constantly get themselves in debt . " |
| 8 | His book again shows locales being used as a resource in this process , ‘ the lads ’ using distinct rooms and spaces to literally separate themselves from school authorities , from the ‘ earoles ’ and from the much-despised Pakistanis and West Indians . |
| 9 | Lancaster proved himself one of the most outstanding of Edward 's commanders , and he and his men not only covered themselves with glory but also substantially enriched themselves . |
| 10 | The anxiety that I will be caught out on the hustings by a clever swine in a corduroy jacket asking ‘ What is the current rate of child benefit ? ’ is one which is shared by all those rash enough to offer themselves for election . |
| 11 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 12 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 13 | It is not , however , ideal as a general methodology for lexical semantics : it is far too cumbersome , many areas of meaning do not lend themselves to illustration in this fashion and , in any case , production only taps active competence . |
| 14 | Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say . |
| 15 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 16 | Anyone who sought to translate their feelings into political activity soon found themselves in jail . |
| 17 | The shops — those endless lines of shabby , plastic-fronted London shops , the paint peeling , the windows steamed up — finally reassembled themselves into council flats ; they disintegrated again and reappeared as boarded-up warehouses at Dalston Junction , weeds sprouting vigorously from cracks in the brickwork . |
| 18 | Civil servants dealing with the public will normally identify themselves by name . |
| 19 | Bowyer 's troopers , as professional soldiers are wont , soon made themselves at home in the courtyard and outhouses : within an hour , Sir John was receiving complaints of food being stolen from the kitchen ; jugs of wine mysteriously emptying ; and chickens , full of life the night before , suddenly being killed , plucked and spitted over makeshift fires . |
| 20 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
| 21 | It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena — they no longer restrict themselves to Greek ! ) |
| 22 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 23 | They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet . |
| 24 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 25 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 26 | Financiers would not hurl themselves off City window-sills . |
| 27 | All these specialist platoons are manned by selected men who have already proved themselves in rifle platoons . |
| 28 | Production landlords should be given an equal share so that they can make their living by their own labour and thus reform themselves through labour . |
| 29 | Unlike homo sapiens , the species his long-dead master Sartori had been wont to call the blossom on the simian tree , Chant 's kind could not hide themselves from oblivion 's agents by closing a door and drawing the blinds . |
| 30 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |