Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 2 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 3 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 4 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 5 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 6 | Some lyricists manage to keep themselves apart from the song , suggesting things instead of making them obvious , and that approach is maybe better because the listeners have to use their imagination … |
| 7 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 8 | And United continued to haul themselves away from the basement with a two one win . |
| 9 | NORTH Down have an extra special reason for wishing to haul themselves out of the Harp International League at the third attempt … next season heralds the Comber club 's centenary year . |
| 10 | Not only to advocate the giving of second chances but also to say that I hope that Shaun and the rest manage to get themselves out of the rut they 've dug for themselves . |
| 11 | The archosaurs , however , gradually began to raise themselves permanently off the ground . |
| 12 | The flames which belched from every opening caused the two struggling men to fling themselves flat on the ground to escape their scorching blast . |
| 13 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 14 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 15 | Thus are we victims of various sorts of obsession when certain parts of ourselves seek to preserve themselves even at the expense of the whole personality . |
| 16 | L et 's be honest , the only thing wrong with laces is they 're a pain to do up every time and they sometimes seem to untie themselves mysteriously in the middle of a run . |
| 17 | For children with cerebral palsy it involves a focused yet holistic approach designed to stimulate them to move themselves out of the passivity that lack of control over their bodies has encouraged since birth . |
| 18 | Attitudes toward science — also treated elsewhere in the same issue — and the apparently instinctive antipathy toward new ideas that do not fit readily into one 's established mental framework , continue to manifest themselves even in the context of the current technological age . |
| 19 | They were … sort of … writhing around … struggling … trying to push themselves away from the wall . |
| 20 | More splashes followed , and when he peered cautiously around the side of the buttress he saw that the men now occupying the punt were using their hands as paddles to propel themselves away from the promontory wall . |