Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] themselves " in BNC.

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1 Anyhow , they 've re-organised themselves an' found a new preacher t'lead 'em to glory .
2 They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up .
3 They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI .
4 Luckily they 've sat themselves on opposite sides of the room .
5 Yeah , well tha , they 've dropped themselves right in it now !
6 It might be a silent death in bed after they 've let themselves in .
7 Quite often people do n't need a computer , what they need is a slightly different manual system , and I tell them that quite often , they 're very , very pleased , they think they 've saved themselves two or three thousand pounds at least .
8 I think Shrewsbury have done very very well , they conceded a goal very early on in the game and they could have gone to pieces but they gathered themselves together , got back in the game with a goal from and they 've done themselves proud so far .
9 The New FADS missed the boat , but , well look here , they 've built themselves a new one .
10 A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself .
11 Erm and then once they 've organized themselves into these associations their first er job should be , or was perhaps , I 'm not he 's talking about what has actually happened I suppose
12 And annual ; by the time they 've got themselves together it will be practically time for them to disperse .
13 They 've got themselves into this mess in just nine months .
14 That 's another fine mess they 've got themselves into .
15 they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment
16 erm But they 've got themselves together again and we seem to be picking up .
17 Anyway , I 'm sure you 'll have horror stories , of guests who 've invited themselves .
18 Derry 's unfancied squad , written off by a lot of football pundits , are so keen to prove their detractors wrong , that they 've set themselves a demanding series of targets for the remaining four matches .
19 Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test .
20 He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who 've found themselves in a religious dilemma .
21 But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area .
22 Really they 've dissociated themselves from us .
23 For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem .
24 I think there 've been one or two not er brush ups you know in the pubs once er or twice , they er they wo n't drink with them and that and er some of the lads some of the lads that have gone back have really realized the situation they 've put themselves in you know , and they sorry and now they 're on they do n't know which way to turn .
25 I mean I feel sorry for them erm they 've put themselves in a position branded forever more or less .
26 So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting .
27 They 've covered themselves very nicely . ’
28 My Lords , before the Noble Lord sits down , perhaps I could ask him to remember , he was saying s how , how splendidly the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy appointed magistrates and I entirely agree , but they appoint them , not from a list that they 've constructed themselves , they appoint them because the keepers of the roles for respective counties propose names to them which they very carefully er selected by the very special and an an and complicated process of of er of er of of examination of people whose names come forward , I find in my case that only one-third of the people whom I interview for this purpose with my Committee er are the ones which I 've I propose .
29 Just ask the parents of some of the drivers who 've killed themselves and see what they call it .
30 They 've lowered themselves to harrassment. 5 members have had visits at their homes .
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