Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Sam 's Son spawns further progeny we need to consider whether criminal authors have themselves become the victims of this new and draconian confiscation legislation . |
| 2 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 3 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 4 | I think that generally organisations are squeezing out a lot of fat at that level simply because they 're finding more efficient ways to organise themselves to do the work . |
| 5 | Tetris obsessives find themselves placing the objects in a room neatly together in their mind . |
| 6 | For example , when a work is constructed in order to lay bare all its devices form itself becomes the content . |
| 7 | Firstly the local tyrants , evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this , so th there is more to it than that , and secondly a revolution is not a dinner party or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery , it can not be so refined , so leisurely and gentle so temperate , kind , courteous , restrained and , and magnanimous . |
| 8 | As the Poles organised themselves to combat the increasingly virulent Germanisation policies of the new German Reich , so cash flowed into the newly created and increasingly efficient Polish Land Banks . |
| 9 | THE oft fickle world of fashion has a lot to answer for with its shapes and sizes demanding that women change themselves to fit the latest trend or quirk . |
| 10 | Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures . |
| 11 | Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications . |
| 12 | So the Collector and Hookum Singh and half a dozen others prepared themselves to defend the drawing-room door , if necessary with bayonets as well as firearms . |