Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most academics involved in the study and teaching of local government lined themselves up behind the councils which they perceived to be under threat , in a centrally inspired attack on local democracy and local autonomy . |
| 2 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |
| 3 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 4 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 5 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 6 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 7 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 8 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 9 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 10 | This was the situation P&O Containers , Australia , found themselves in after the acquisition of Associated Container Transportation ( Australia ) Ltd ( ACTA ) . |
| 11 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 12 | Erm and a lot of them , straddled themselves out on the pavement erm in groups of s thirty , forty people along Avenue . |
| 13 | However , there was a storming finish as Peterborough twice hauled themselves back into the match . |
| 14 | These were all blows for the home side yet , with skipper John Rafferty providing the kind of leadership that is reserved for ‘ Boys Own ’ stories , Armagh suddenly hauled themselves out of the grave . |
| 15 | At the end , the ‘ boys ’ clambered onto the wall , sat with legs crossed and threw themselves backwards over the wall one by one into the arms of a stagehand . |
| 16 | On the bank , the trumpet twittered again , and the water became full of spray and hurtling bodies as shoremen left their attack and threw themselves back on the sand . |
| 17 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 18 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 19 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 20 | Yes , this is the stuff real men are made of and let all those jessie pop stars who holed themselves up in the luxury of four star hotels hang their heads in shame ! |
| 21 | A few shook themselves loose from the tangle , and pounded onward , others skirted the fallen and fell in behind them . |
| 22 | Other examples include Marks and Spencer , and British Home Stores , two chains which based themselves originally on the clothing trade , but which between them have diversified into footwear , foodstuffs , toys and books , amongst other items . |
| 23 | Six satin-cloaked figures in white porcelain masks arranged themselves artistically against the façade of a shop selling Murano glass , the blank stares and the perfectly carved mouths giving them a look of unreality . |
| 24 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 25 | Everyone pressed themselves flat to the floor as the heavier-calibre bullets smashed a spray of rock chips and dust across the floor . |
| 26 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 27 | The Situationists were idealists in the sense that they perceived themselves apart from the spectacle , always managing to be ‘ other-than-spectacular ’ , as Levin puts it , so that this became a pre-condition of Situationist practice . |
| 28 | And despite Wednesday 's 2–0 cup collapse to Cookstown , coach Mark Sinnamon insists his young warriors can come through their toughest test since the 1986 Irish Senior Cup final when they pulled themselves up by the bootlaces to beat Three Rock Rovers . |
| 29 | They gradually pulled themselves back into the game . |
| 30 | A few years later it would be Elizabeth 's brother Samuel who would step into the breach at a time of crisis , as we shall see , but in 1808 it was Thomas Hasted , as the newly-weds skirted round the northern edge of the Tower and established themselves just inside the parish of St Mary Whitechapel . |