Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 2 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 3 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 4 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 5 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 6 | That regional neglect has fuelled a feeling in many regions that perhaps they should be empowered to assist themselves in the face of an unsympathetic central Government . |
| 7 | While other institutions needed to accommodate themselves to the decline of formulary procedure and the new predominance of cognitio , trusts were in need of no adjustment . |
| 8 | The collaborators can be used to play themselves in the drama . |
| 9 | A variety of other industries were also ruined by British policy : silk goods manufacturers , for example , were compelled to restrict themselves to the production of raw silk , while gun making was seriously affected by a restrictive licensing policy and other means ( Bagchi , 1982 , p. 82 ) . |
| 10 | But I do n't see why they should be asked to shoot themselves in the foot by paying to train a competitor 's workforce , and neither do they ! ’ |
| 11 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 12 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 13 | The report 's authors claim that all three major political parties have failed to address themselves to the country 's ‘ housing emergency ’ . |
| 14 | Nedham and Bowes were further required to acquaint themselves with the costing of the roasting and smelting . |
| 15 | Last Saturday United managed to lift themselves off the foot of division two , but they 're still financially rock bottom . |
| 16 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |