Example sentences of "themselves [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men are trying to catch mine and hook themselves on to me as ‘ guides ’ . |
| 2 | As the London Underground becomes more dishevelled and unpredictable , so the number of suicides who throw themselves on to the track seems to increase . |
| 3 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 4 | In recent years the band seem to have diverted themselves on to projects like ‘ God In Three Persons ’ and ‘ The King And Eye ’ . |
| 5 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |
| 6 | The same thing may explain the cricket establishment 's ambivalent attitude towards the one-day matches that have shoved themselves on to the scene . |
| 7 | Ideology , defined as the control over certain potential media of objectification in society by interest groups such that those who externalize themselves on to those media are unable to recognize that section of themselves , is a common historical phenomenon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Is the Secretary of State aware that London Underground has stated that there is no limit to the number of people who wish to push themselves on to a London Underground train ? |
| 10 | When the dancing had reached its climax , the whole crowd flung themselves on to the floor and further worked themselves up into what looked like a communal epileptic fit . |
| 11 | The Galks saw the time traveller , lowered themselves on to all fours , and bounded across the desert . |
| 12 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 13 | Anybody who does n't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag . |
| 14 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |
| 15 | They rush from the water , fling themselves down on the beach and proceed to roll around in agony , screaming and frothing at the mouth . |
| 16 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 17 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 18 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 19 | Two of the men flung themselves down on a bench , scabbards clattering , while the third strode forward , kicking Isabel 's abandoned bucket out of his path . |
| 20 | Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . |
| 21 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 22 | sending the fish themselves down to the bottom , out of harm 's way . |
| 23 | I find that people tend to not put themselves down for training courses . |
| 24 | But erm careers officers particularly put themselves down for visits , |
| 25 | Burrowing bivalves , which are typically found in the soft bottoms of shallow seas today , dig themselves down into the sediment , where they escape the attention of many predators ( except birds with long bills ! ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 | The others hurled themselves down behind him . |