Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 2 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 3 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 4 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 5 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 6 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 7 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 8 | The picture is obscured by the different public and private agencies seeking to divest themselves of the burden by distributing costs between one another . |
| 9 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 10 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 11 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 12 | That regional neglect has fuelled a feeling in many regions that perhaps they should be empowered to assist themselves in the face of an unsympathetic central Government . |
| 13 | While other institutions needed to accommodate themselves to the decline of formulary procedure and the new predominance of cognitio , trusts were in need of no adjustment . |
| 14 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 15 | With cries of ‘ oi gevalt ’ and ‘ keender ! keender ! ’ from Mum and Dad and screams of fear from the girls , the three bodies eventually manage to extricate themselves from the floor . |
| 16 | The collaborators can be used to play themselves in the drama . |
| 17 | And these final comments , addressed over the child 's death , seem to justify themselves in the sense that the playwright is speaking not only from experience , but for all the parents who dread that this might happen to them . |
| 18 | There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention . |
| 19 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 20 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 21 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 22 | ( i ) Ballot At the start of each session , all Members wishing to promote legislation ( or , more realistically , wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of securing publicity for a cause ) may enter their names on a ballot . |
| 23 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |
| 24 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 25 | A variety of other industries were also ruined by British policy : silk goods manufacturers , for example , were compelled to restrict themselves to the production of raw silk , while gun making was seriously affected by a restrictive licensing policy and other means ( Bagchi , 1982 , p. 82 ) . |
| 26 | I hope now that the privileged few are having to lower themselves to the level of State schools , there will be more pressure on the Government to put some cash into education . |
| 27 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 28 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 29 | He spoke for a minute , followed by a succession of other characters and then four grown , men sitting in the lotus position , proceeded to hurl themselves into the air . |
| 30 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |