Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 2 | Yeah , people could just switch off and then it Apple Macintosh erm I think with the Gillette decision was part of the Gillette seemed to reposition themselves in advertising |
| 3 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 4 | Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena . |
| 5 | As the jet continued its descent they began to muffle themselves in fur against the subzero temperature on the snow- and ice-covered ground . |
| 6 | And so , for the first time , vertebrate hunters began to propel themselves with skill and accuracy through the waters of the sea . |
| 7 | Such resistance to being well necessitated the idea of unconscious forces of guilt ; the patients sought to punish themselves through illness . |
| 8 | Their minds reeled , sickness churned as they struggled to save themselves from injury . |
| 9 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 10 | Throughout October high-caste youths continued to kill themselves in protest at the government 's plan . |
| 11 | Logic suggested that the Chelonians had marched themselves into battle with their customary lack of subtlety , only to find that their enemy was of a higher calibre than anticipated . |
| 12 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 13 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 14 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 15 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 16 | Then Joseph and another boy , outrunning the others , had flung themselves on top of the flapping bird and held her down , while the remaining young hunters had torn down bush creepers for rope . |
| 17 | Maslow in his experiments found that amongst his highest men and women ( those who had fulfilled themselves in life ) there were two distinct groups . |
| 18 | All had prided themselves on training and nurturing their own people , and all boasted many employees who had notched up decades of faithful service . |
| 19 | It is as if the dead person had killed themselves in order to get away and as a punishment . |
| 20 | Both are motorcylcists of long standing and had hardened themselves in readiness by taking to their bikes in the run-up to the rally . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |
| 23 | At its timbre strong men had quailed ; the bearers of Military Crosses awarded for bravery above and beyond in places like Italy and Burma had braced themselves in anticipation of her terrible wrath . |
| 24 | Idealistic friars now put their arguments for a propertyless church to the service of Gaunt and other laymen who simply wanted to avail themselves of church wealth for the relief of their own tax burden . |