Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] themselves on " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , there were packets of walnut bits too , but they failed to impress themselves on me . |
| 2 | And it was hot , the humidity very high with a miasma hanging over the buildings as though the clouds were so heavy with moisture they needed to rest themselves on terra firma . |
| 3 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 4 | Luckily they 've sat themselves on opposite sides of the room . |
| 5 | Some passages stood out in his mind with almost photographic clarity , presumably because they had impressed themselves on his mind earlier . |
| 6 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 7 | She smelt of the exhalations of other people 's cigarettes and spilt wine , and she was expansive , with the air of someone who has spent time in the company of her like-minded fellows , not distracted and irritable as people are when they have tired themselves on the trail of trivial knowledge . |