Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 2 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 3 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 4 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 5 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 6 | He spoke for a minute , followed by a succession of other characters and then four grown , men sitting in the lotus position , proceeded to hurl themselves into the air . |
| 7 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 8 | The girls managed to paddle themselves to the shore , but the boys spent almost an hour before being rescued . |
| 9 | About 150 of those North European settlers chose to barricade themselves inside the Alamo Mission , turn it into a fortress , and to defy Santa Anna 's army of around 5,000 . |
| 10 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 11 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 12 | And they had to concern themselves with the possibility of igniting even greater disturbances which could not be contained by the forces at hand . |
| 13 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |
| 14 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |