Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] themselves [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 2 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |
| 3 | Other examples include Marks and Spencer , and British Home Stores , two chains which based themselves originally on the clothing trade , but which between them have diversified into footwear , foodstuffs , toys and books , amongst other items . |
| 4 | The unconscious seems involved in a deep way , in part due to their setting themselves up as a Chosen People of God the Father . |
| 5 | Yes , this is the stuff real men are made of and let all those jessie pop stars who holed themselves up in the luxury of four star hotels hang their heads in shame ! |
| 6 | Jeremy Spafford from Oxford 's Housing Aid Centre is specifically involved with helping single people who find themselves well down the list when it comes to being provided with a home . |
| 7 | The class structure is becoming dominated by the knowledge mercenaries who hire themselves out to the feudal barons of top management and state agencies , each of whom is as good as the last battle . |
| 8 | As the London Underground becomes more dishevelled and unpredictable , so the number of suicides who throw themselves on to the track seems to increase . |
| 9 | Everyone pressed themselves flat to the floor as the heavier-calibre bullets smashed a spray of rock chips and dust across the floor . |
| 10 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 11 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 12 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 13 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 14 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 15 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 16 | Anybody who does n't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag . |
| 17 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 18 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 19 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 20 | The Situationists were idealists in the sense that they perceived themselves apart from the spectacle , always managing to be ‘ other-than-spectacular ’ , as Levin puts it , so that this became a pre-condition of Situationist practice . |
| 21 | And despite Wednesday 's 2–0 cup collapse to Cookstown , coach Mark Sinnamon insists his young warriors can come through their toughest test since the 1986 Irish Senior Cup final when they pulled themselves up by the bootlaces to beat Three Rock Rovers . |
| 22 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 23 | Whereas previously their contribution had been submerged beneath the power of the front pair , on ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ they brought themselves fully into the fray , skilfully powering the music into the subconscious . |
| 24 | Stray bullets flying across their heads from both trenches ensured that they kept themselves low to the ground . |
| 25 | They pushed themselves flat against the tunnel wall . |
| 26 | Even if you are not going to apply for a Legal Aid franchise , membership of the panel will be important for anyone putting themselves forward as a personal injury specialist ( see Appendix 2A for the Personal Injury Panel criteria ) . |
| 27 | For children with cerebral palsy it involves a focused yet holistic approach designed to stimulate them to move themselves out of the passivity that lack of control over their bodies has encouraged since birth . |
| 28 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |