Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took time for the Americans to commit themselves to a battle for the stomachs , hearts and minds of the people living in the Western zones of Germany . |
| 2 | Choosing a toroidal shape there are still lots of possible ways for the lines to arrange themselves , but in a good permanent magnet the flux lines will be circles with centres at 0 , the centre of the toroid ( Fig. 3.11 ( a ) ) . |
| 3 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 4 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 5 | Liverpool Labour group member George Knibb said : ‘ What we are asking you to do is for what you believe in for the miners to commit yourselves to for your own workforce . ’ |
| 6 | Plan B meant no plan , however , and having none we were free to react to whims , needing no more than this first glimpse for the wheels to set themselves in motion as we set off down for tea . |
| 7 | That 's an exercise for the students to do themselves if they want to , is to derive the negative version . |
| 8 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 9 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 10 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 11 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 12 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |
| 13 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 14 | Before he concentrated on the actual scene of the crime , Dalgliesh always liked to make a cursory survey of the surroundings to orientate himself , and , as it were , to set the scene of murder . |
| 15 | Anderson ( N.C. , 1983 ) held that the Board of Visitors should have exercised their discretion to allow legal representation in view of the seriousness of the charges and the potential penalty , the need for fairness between the parties involved and the ability of the prisoners to represent themselves . |
| 16 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |
| 17 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 18 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |
| 19 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 20 | As she reached the bottom of the stairs , Araminta herself waylaid her , coming out of the shadows to place herself in the companion 's way . |
| 21 | This refusal of the activists to reconcile themselves to war testifies to their sincerity , not their naivety . |
| 22 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 23 | The initial experience for any child is just to play with the pieces to familiarise himself with them all and this often takes the form of picture and pattern making — similar to the early use of the other structured apparatus . |
| 24 | Many ‘ cold-blooded ’ animals , from lizards to butterflies , sun-bathe in the mornings to get themselves moving . |
| 25 | There was nothing unique in this ; it was n't uncommon in the lanes to find oneself stuck behind a slow-moving tractor with a twelve-year-old in the cab , using public highways to get from one piece of a farm to another . |
| 26 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 27 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 28 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 29 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 30 | He yelled at the students to separate themselves — women to the left and men to the right . |