Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 2 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 3 | They take five million pounds out of the scheme as a refund they give themselves a five year contribution holiday and not one penny of that improvement goes to the members . |
| 4 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 5 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 6 | Maybe they 'll launch a putsch and get themselves a new chairman . ’ |
| 7 | In 1987 , they voluntarily set themselves a worldwide target of reducing air pollution by 90% at the end of 1992 . |
| 8 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 9 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 10 | Nearly 50% of all women allow themselves a once-a-year bet on the horses , according to a recent Gallup survey conducted for the UK 's largest bookmaker , Ladbrokes . |
| 11 | They put the money into a bank account , out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary . |
| 12 | ‘ These hospitals are essential in an area like this where many older people find themselves a long way from their family , ’ says Dr David Skerrett , a GP who has practised in Fowey , Cornwall , for 30 years and plans to stay put for his retirement . |
| 13 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 14 | Some Afghanis — their thinnish ranks supplemented by eager non-veteran Algerians who copy their dress and swagger — proclaim themselves a paramilitary wing of Algeria 's now-banned Islamic Salvation Front ; they attacked a military post near the Libyan border in late 1991 . |
| 15 | She had thought the quantities of gilt ( never did she credit that it might be real gold ) an evidence of shocking vulgarity , had sneered at the bad taste of the ornate picture frames , at the ridiculous excesses of the pictures themselves , and had felt a solid , suburban scorn for the frayed and patched tapestry chair seats and the faded hangings : she had wondered why , if so rich , they did not throw out their tatty Persian coverings , and buy themselves a good bit of fitted Wilton or Axminster in a good plain colour . |
| 16 | Townsmen in Cornwall , Carew supposed , ‘ conceive themselves an estranged society from the upland dwellers and carry an emulation against them , as if one member of a body could continue this well without a beholdingness to the rest ’ . |