Example sentences of "[vb pp] themselves [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 2 | This process has placed enormous pressure upon our employees and it is tremendously encouraging to see the way in which staff have committed themselves to the new organisation . |
| 3 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 4 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 5 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 6 | And those long gentle lines of the dip-slope of the Cotswolds , those misty uplands of the sheep-grey oolite , how they have lent themselves to the villainous requirements of the new age ! |
| 7 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 8 | The commencement power er will not be put into effect by the Home Secretary until he knows that the other countries have accommodated themselves to the new arrangements . |
| 9 | Of the three component political groups which had founded the Labour Representation Committee thirty years before , the Marxists had mostly isolated themselves within the Communist Party , the ILP was ready to depart and the Fabian Society was moribund . |
| 10 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |
| 11 | He spent his youth in Provence where three generations of his family had already devoted themselves to the arcane mysteries of perfume business . |
| 12 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 13 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 14 | These were articulate people , perhaps better able to deal with the press and media than some other families who have found themselves in the same position . |
| 15 | On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony . |
| 16 | identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess . |
| 17 | Two guards on skis had infiltrated themselves between the high wire and the high wooden fence and covered the growing mass of prisoners with their rifles . |
| 18 | perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics . |
| 19 | Manchester United looked like they had forced themselves into the second round of the UEFA Cup when they went two goals ahead after four spot kicks when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin buried their chances . |
| 20 | No country 's parties have yet fully adjusted themselves to the new pattern — of the big countries , the United States and Germany are probably closest — but Greece is further away than most of the rest of the western world . |
| 21 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 22 | Therefore , virtually all methods of land evaluation have limited themselves to the physical factors of climate , relief and soil . |
| 23 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |
| 24 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 25 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 26 | From Eddie Murphy to Richard Pryor , black American comedians have established themselves in the comic maintstream . |
| 27 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 28 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |
| 29 | Others , more cynical , practised ‘ chameleonism ’ and declared themselves Republicans in the hope of taming the Republic ; most of these attached themselves to the Radical Party , helping to turn it into , in effect , the conservative party of the Republic and increase its already considerable reputation for political and financial corruption . |