Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociobiologists are liable to find themselves in confrontation with the cultural and social anthropologists because they are specially concerned with interactions ( especially mating behaviour ) between individual animals which are closely related biologically . |
| 2 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 3 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 4 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 5 | Throughout October high-caste youths continued to kill themselves in protest at the government 's plan . |
| 6 | As the jet continued its descent they began to muffle themselves in fur against the subzero temperature on the snow- and ice-covered ground . |
| 7 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 8 | Since CNAA reports were always likely to reach a wide readership they ‘ must be based on conclusive evidence and should not identify individuals for serious criticism in a manner which can not allow them to defend themselves in accordance with the established rule of law ’ . |
| 9 | Archbishop Aethelheard was at Rome seeking to secure the person of Odberht/Eadberht to answer charges brought against him by Offa , but Charlemagne had also sent Eadberht and others , who were in fear of death from Offa and had sought his protection , to Rome to defend themselves in person before the pope . |
| 10 | This provides the timetable for the meeting and allows members of the committee to prepare themselves in advance for the discussions that will take place . |
| 11 | Traditionally Convocation had met whenever Parliament assembled , but the institution had been largely dormant after 1664 , when the clergy relinquished their right to tax themselves in return for the vote in Parliamentary elections , and had met only once since then , namely in 1689 . |
| 12 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |