Example sentences of "to keep themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old story about the Roman legionaries using nettles to keep themselves warm on night duty in the cold northern province that was Britain may be apocryphal , but there is no doubt that the sting resulting from the touch of a nettle leaf causes a burning sensation . |
| 2 | Men make use of fire not only to keep themselves warm but to process their food |
| 3 | It 's thought the fire may have been started by squatters in the hotel who were trying to keep themselves warm . |
| 4 | There are no clay organisms ; and clays do not scavenge and process energy from their surroundings to keep themselves intact . |
| 5 | The places where living things live , the ways that they live and the relationships between them , crucially depend upon their ability to acquire the materials they need to keep themselves intact . |
| 6 | They wished to keep themselves secret and therefore I was to go to Mordecai . |
| 7 | It 's a trick they 've learned , presumably to keep themselves safe in confined spaces . |
| 8 | How women who do n't have professions manage to keep themselves sane I can not imagine ! ’ |
| 9 | In Bengal the women bathing in the rivers often use their overturned water jugs to keep themselves afloat when they swim , and the poet has used this incident for his simile : |
| 10 | They kept it intact to the last but both of them knew , without any discussion , that to keep themselves afloat they 'd jump on any passing raft . |
| 11 | Fixing prices to keep themselves afloat is yet another insult to the public who , without choice , have subsidised this industry . |