Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grubs and beetles try to hide themselves in secret places where none shall see them , but nevertheless there are many which are swallowed whole in one swift plunge and gobble . |
| 2 | Even so , many respondents were surprised at how quickly the different interests of units and districts had manifested themselves : |
| 3 | Because the mood in Japan is changing , and candidates want to identify themselves with reform . |
| 4 | In part it involved differences in perceptions about the boundaries of people 's work and what they contributed : in general , professionals and parents tended to see themselves as concerned with the young person and their life as a whole , but they saw others as being restricted in their work and concerned only with limited aspects of the young person . |
| 5 | This quickened anti-French feeling , and encouraged by the successes of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung in neighbouring China , Annamese nationalists and Communists began to organize themselves more coherently . |
| 6 | Thus by the outbreak of war a number of questions and problems had forced themselves onto the agendas of middle-class society , and by the end of the war all these factors were resolved into one major consideration : the nature and control of ‘ industrial democracy ’ . |
| 7 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 8 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 11 | Or how it feels ( if you are the challenger ) to learn that an even larger number of men and women have organised themselves into teams with the sole purpose of stopping you getting anywhere . |
| 12 | In return sportsmen and women have to make themselves available to the press and the sponsors for promotional purposes . |
| 13 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |