Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river . |
| 2 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 3 | Outdoor enthusiasts of all abilities are being challenged to test themselves to the full in an exciting sponsored event in the Peak District taking place this autumn . |
| 4 | These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle . |
| 5 | Justifiably or not , the Soviet Union in the later Brezhnev years had provided no advertisement for socialism , and even communist parties in other countries had felt compelled to distance themselves from the Soviet model and the heritage of Leninism . |
| 6 | What was she doing on Noah 's mountain alongside a pilgrim turned fanatic and a bearded peasant with whom she could not communicate , while the rock below them exploded like the gunpowder they had brought to ingratiate themselves with the local chieftains ? |
| 7 | There was , they believed , no reason ‘ why competent knowledge and critical skill , if encouraged to exercise themselves in the disinterested pursuit of truth , should be less fruitful in religious than in social and physical ideas ’ . |
| 8 | In the past dozen years an alternative great idea has pulled them westward , as they have tried to dissolve themselves into the European Community . |
| 9 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 10 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |
| 11 | The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force . |
| 12 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 13 | US and British citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 14 | In his Russian heartland the democrats , repeating the mistakes of their predecessors before 1917 , have failed to organise themselves into a cohesive opposition . |