Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the mood in Japan is changing , and candidates want to identify themselves with reform . |
| 2 | When they want to warm themselves in front of a fire they are not ashamed to lift up their kilts and display their private parts . |
| 3 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 4 | Some actors manage to get themselves into trouble by picking the wrong people to slug it out with — like the police ! |
| 5 | Asked how he decides on the price of a dish , the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) explains that black ingredients are always the most expensive because people like to remind themselves of death . |
| 6 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 7 | Elderly ladies tend to cook themselves in front of an electric or gas fire for hours on end in an effort to keep warm . |
| 8 | Several laws have been passed in modern times to restrict dangerous activities and to impose criminal sanctions on citizens who fail to protect themselves against injury — for example , the offences of failing to wear a safety helmet when riding a motor cycle , and failing to wear a safety harness when travelling in the front seat of a car . |
| 9 | Since its inception the Design Museum has been criticised for the way its exhibits fail to distinguish themselves from department store displays ; to some extent the museum has tried to work analytically with this analogy — its inaugural exhibition , for example , was aimed at exploring the relationships between ‘ commerce and culture ’ . |
| 10 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 11 | Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story , theme or music has inspired them . |
| 12 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 13 | There are no auditions , but once pupils have committed themselves to membership regular attendance is expected . |
| 14 | The way in which the Government have sidelined themselves on EMU means uncertainty for business and industry in their planning for the future . |
| 15 | The very best news of the weekend was that Gloucester have saved themselves from relegation … it 'll be first division rugby at Kingsholm again next season thanks to a stirring 22 — 9 win at Bristol |
| 16 | ‘ The Scottish lords have made themselves at home , ’ Agrippa muttered . |
| 17 | For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens . |
| 18 | In England registry office weddings are for girls who have got themselves into trouble . |
| 19 | Even there , even with all the change , people find it difficult to cut back on activities in which they have invested themselves over time . |
| 20 | At this point , Christians need to protect themselves against over-reaction . |
| 21 | Also , as owning firms have expanded they have diversified and have found themselves in competition with their consortium offspring . |
| 22 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 23 | Yet for most of human history people have defined themselves by work . |
| 24 | Many members of the Moscow research institutes have hurled themselves into politics , as advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin or as politicians in their own right . |
| 25 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |
| 26 | When government authority has been challenged citizens have expressed themselves in favor of maintaining that authority . |
| 27 | It may not be beautiful and certainly is not fast but it is a survivor , it stands no nonsense and it will be around long after the thoroughbreds have thrashed themselves to death on a rocky shore . |
| 28 | Technocracy is described by a prophet of the counter-culture as ‘ that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who , in turn , justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge ’ ( Roszack , 1969 , pp. 7 — 8 ) . |
| 29 | So all the fish that use this system , whether in the rivers of West Africa or in South America , keep their bodies as stiff as ramrods and have to propel themselves by undulation of their fins . |