Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 2 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 3 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 4 | People who are on intimate terms are incapable of expressing themselves to each other , ’ said the thin , melancholy Feiffer . |
| 5 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
| 6 | Clark Gable , James Cagney and Bogart developed peaceful ways of ridding themselves of these nuisances . |
| 7 | It 's crazy , it 's crazy , if only people again 'd sit back and look at it and see exactly what 's happening , rather than saying it serves them right , they should n't of done this , they should n't of got themselves into that position they 're in that position |
| 8 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 9 | And therefore , if it can really come to this possibility of ministry a sort of , Young Farmers Club idea of getting themselves about that could be a a a a , a , a marvellous boost . |
| 10 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 11 | When times are hard financially , many people feel very anxious at the thought of committing themselves to another baby . |
| 12 | As we have seen , although positivist criminologists were often shy of associating themselves with specific corrective programmes , they saw crime as pathological and shared a general consensus in favour of a broadly rehabilitative approach to ridding ourselves of it . |
| 13 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 14 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 15 | ‘ This modern peril of the streets ’ , it was observed , ‘ created something like a reign of terror ’ in which ‘ whole sections of a peaceable city community were on the verge of arming themselves against sudden attack ’ . |
| 16 | Sucked into the bureaucracy of their organizations , they feel there are few opportunities for providing a unique contribution to profit , for distinguishing themselves with exceptional results . |
| 17 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 18 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 19 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 20 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 21 | But two things have happened : schools must now be uncertain in comparing themselves with each other because the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 has created dilemmas about the mediation of inspectors ' and advisers ' reports . |
| 22 | The Government claims that the poor will be protected from finding themselves amongst this group of losers by the national system of rebates that will operate alongside the new scheme . |
| 23 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 24 | We saw the obstacle course where the dogs learn to imagine they are six feet tall so that they can keep their blind owners safe from hurting themselves on low objects . |
| 25 | If this occurs , try to contain such behaviour by discouraging anyone from sexual activity or from exposing themselves in public . |
| 26 | In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean . |
| 27 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 28 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 29 | Their task of containing their adversaries , without committing themselves to outright attack , had been well and truly done . ’ |
| 30 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |