Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 2 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 3 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 4 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 5 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 6 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
| 7 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 8 | Instead , they got themselves into a thoroughly embarrassing mess , saying they accepted Gatting 's statement that nothing improper had taken place but sacking him all the same . |
| 9 | They got themselves in a mess by losing millions on loans to foreign countries and dubious borrowers at home . |
| 10 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 11 | Can they make themselves into a statue of , for example , Anancy playing a trick ? |
| 12 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 13 | They push themselves to the edge of exhaustion . |
| 14 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 15 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 16 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 17 | Children often notice differences in size when they play , when , for instance , they fit themselves under a table or try to crawl through a hoop . |
| 18 | They cushion themselves on the silence . |
| 19 | They had certain tricks and devices by which they avenged themselves on the interlopers , but these took up time and energy and , since they were young and inexperienced , frequently rebounded on themselves , although Sam , by dint of great perseverance and the manifestation of genuine hatred , had recently succeeded in ridding her home of her mother 's latest lover . |
| 20 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
| 21 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 22 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 23 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 24 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 25 | Soon , however , they found themselves in a nightmare situation for although they were walking towards the train they seemed to get no nearer to it . |
| 26 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
| 27 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |
| 28 | In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale . |
| 29 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
| 30 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |