Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays , not likely to fuss about anything left over . |
| 2 | In so doing , they imagine themselves set in diametrical opposition to their society where in fact they have unwittingly accepted its crucial structural elements . ’ |
| 3 | It is part of the College 's general policy of encouraging students who might , for whatever reason , consider themselves excluded from Further or Higher Education to make full use of the College 's — and their own resources . |
| 4 | In common with other facilities of LIFESPAN , SPRs and SSRs are retained in magnetic form for as long as the objects to which they refer themselves exist in magnetic form . |
| 5 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 6 | They find themselves operating between two broad publics or constituencies with competing views about the proper realm of government in regulating the economy . |
| 7 | Since each difference in form must signal a difference in meaning , children must make certain choices among forms when they find themselves faced with two different forms with apparently the same meaning — e.g. , bringed and brought , or cooker and cook . |
| 8 | As steam declines in South Africa they find themselves transferred around various depots and are currently working out of Kimberley . |
| 9 | So essentially antagonistic class interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests . |
| 10 | The victims are not just big banks , but ordinary people who have to pay bills twice over — or find themselves landed with impressive but worthless slips of paper . |
| 11 | They find themselves cover in secluded areas , adopting a temporary home which they may use on a number of occasions . |
| 12 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
| 13 | Snatched from the security and love of their sisters in the joint family , Bengali women in Britain often find themselves forced into total emotional dependence on their husbands . |
| 14 | ( c ) Adjectives which , because of their lexical meaning , may only qualify sense find themselves restricted to prenominal position . |
| 15 | The opera 's subtitle is ‘ The School for Loves ’ ; and during the course of this dangerous experiment in human emotions , in which the two sisters unwittingly find themselves seduced by each other 's lover , all four central protagonists learn something about themselves . |
| 16 | Unless stomach acids have a job to do in digesting food they tend to cause discomfort , and dieters often find themselves turning to extra food to quell that unpleasant acidic feeling when the stomach is largely empty . |
| 17 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 18 | The Marquis of Tweeddale , when reporting Murray 's demand to the Duke of Montrose , remarked of the young gentleman who thus intended to begin an academic career that he was ‘ scearce one & twenty but people think themselves fitt for any post in this countrey ’ . |
| 19 | Would my right honourable friend not agree that because of their irresponsible behaviour in disrupting G C H Q's vital work in the early nineteen eighties the trade unions only have themselves to blame for this ban . |
| 20 | Young single parents who have themselves learned by bitter experience what a limitation young parenthood can often be should be used imaginatively in schools to get this message across . |
| 21 | Moreover , social relations of this new type have themselves passed through significant stages . |