Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 2 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 3 | It is true that there were unforeseen obstacles for Hibs to overcome — not least of which was an ankle injury to goalkeeper Chris Reid who was stretchered off after 37 minutes after a 50-50 challenge with Colin West — but it was difficult to disagree with Alex Miller 's belief that Hibs shot themselves in the foot . |
| 4 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 5 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 6 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 7 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 8 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 9 | Jotan raced off into the darkness , and Alexei , Jehana and Arkhina busied themselves around the cart , inventive in the face of necessity . |
| 10 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
| 11 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 12 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom will continue to develop our good relations with the Soviet Union and its republics , and to encourage their integration into the world economy ; and will work to help Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania re-establish themselves in the international community . |
| 14 | Mostyn and Cheadle humped themselves up the stairs , and crashed into the Silver Shuriken , guns discharging . |
| 15 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 16 | [ PAMELA and BELVILLE dress themselves for the Masquerade ; PAMELA as a Puritan girl and BELVILLE as a Spanish nobleman . |
| 17 | Susan told herself that she must keep calm , must n't let nerves and muscles knot themselves into the familiar ache of worry . |
| 18 | They would need clothing and shelter for the extremes of weather , and weaponry to protect themselves from the wild animals and hostile tribes which roamed the desolate regions they were to visit . |
| 19 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 20 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 21 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 22 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
| 23 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |
| 24 | When the introductions were complete , the Exec Director , the DDA , the DDI , Sorge and Nowak settled themselves round the small conference table . |
| 25 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 26 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 27 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 28 | State-controlled television claimed on Nov. 18 that the opposition protest " had fizzled out as people dissociated themselves from the politics of disruption and violence " , although it acknowledged that stoning and tear-gassing in Lahore had " caused inconvenience " . |
| 29 | The division between labour and capital was therefore a nationalist and ethnic one rather than a class one , even though Zuwaya cast themselves in the role of capitalist entrepreneurs , for example when they defended free markets against state-controlled ones . |
| 30 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |