Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 2 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 3 | Most academics involved in the study and teaching of local government lined themselves up behind the councils which they perceived to be under threat , in a centrally inspired attack on local democracy and local autonomy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |
| 6 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 7 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 8 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 10 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 13 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 14 | After a stagnant half-hour the game sparked into life and Thistle quickly found themselves behind to a Kirk shot from a Davie Cooper cross , and a fine Paul McGrillen strike after magnificent work by Phil O'Donnell on the left . |
| 15 | This was the situation P&O Containers , Australia , found themselves in after the acquisition of Associated Container Transportation ( Australia ) Ltd ( ACTA ) . |
| 16 | In practice the bulk of the work done by the Sûreté was not criminal investigation at all but political control … and its agents , not trained as professional detectives with clearly-prescribed answerability before a judicial authority , generally stood in low public esteem ; they were never concerned with safeguarding the personal safety and private property of Vietnamese villagers and seem to have considered themselves primarily as a network of agents to watch over the interests of the French state . |
| 17 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 18 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 19 | Peel quotes evidence that the raging streamfloods and sheetfloods mentioned above are the exceptions that have impressed themselves strongly on the mind of chance , lucky observers . |
| 20 | Some plasmids are capable of splicing themselves seamlessly into a chromosome . |
| 21 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 22 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 23 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 24 | Onto another club trying to pull themselves out of the doldrums … |
| 25 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 26 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 27 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 28 | While Quins are in danger of attracting even more coconuts for continuing to select a player who plainly is no longer fully resident in England , Leicester have to pick themselves up after a cup defeat that , effectively , ended the hunt for any of the season 's trophies . |
| 29 | Perhaps Twenty-fourthers hired themselves out on a contract basis to anyone wanting to lean heavily on un-Islamic behaviour . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |