Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 2 | Opposition forwards are not committing themselves to the ruck or maul . |
| 3 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 4 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 5 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 6 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 7 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 8 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 9 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 10 | Pontypridd shunted Old Boys back 10 metres , when two of the junior club 's forwards detached themselves from a scrum 20 metres out . |
| 11 | The X 's silently detach themselves from the numbers on either side and become multiplication signs . |