Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 2 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
| 3 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 4 | In soft brass passages it provides a perfectly satisfactory bass by itself , but in loud ones the difference in quality between its ‘ blunt ’ tones and the ‘ sharp ’ utterance of the trumpets and trombones makes itself felt . |
| 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 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 7 | In my garden the yellow Welsh poppy , Meconopsis cambrica , Corydalia lutea , alkanet , the evening primrose , Oenothera perennis , Alchemilla mollis and forget-me-nots seed themselves freely around . |
| 8 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 9 | It was n't like that in the past , till the betraying chiefs invented title deeds and laws to suit themselves — at the cost of the people who were tricked , pillaged and deported . |
| 10 | In one she lay spread-eagled on the tiled floor on which Trueman had met his death , with the playful nymphs and shepherds entwining themselves around her . |
| 11 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 12 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 13 | ‘ The Soviet Union is giving us oxygen — bread and weapons to defend ourselves , ’ said Suleman Laeq , the minister for tribes and nationalities . |
| 14 | It is not helpful to lay down hard and fast rules : judges and juries place themselves ( without very much difficulty ) in the position of " right-thinking members of society " , and ask themselves whether they think the statement would injure the plaintiff 's reputation . |
| 15 | But not , even after another fifteen years or so , culminating in the winter of discontent and in the fall of Mr Callaghan 's administration , experience enough to induce institutions and attitudes to accommodate themselves . |
| 16 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 17 | For the groups and associations promoting themselves as school subjects , and irresistibly drawn to claiming ‘ academic status ’ , a central criterion has been whether the subjects ' content could be tested by written examinations for an ‘ able ’ clientele . |
| 18 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 19 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 20 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 21 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 22 | If you 'd a husband and bairns to occupy yourself with , there 'd be none of this drawing and tootling on flutes . |
| 23 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 24 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 25 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 26 | Undeniably , though , the space allowed for lesbians and gays to represent themselves remains very small . |
| 27 | The resistance began when lesbians and gays organized themselves and made their voices heard throughout the country . |
| 28 | Within four hours it was all over , and the following morning thousands of officers and men found themselves incarcerated in the Cittadella , the great sixteenth-century fortress built by the Farnese on the outskirts of the city . |
| 29 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 30 | If the Pharisees and Scribes thought themselves to be so perfect that they were not aware of their own sin then little could be done for them . |