Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 16.3 Reading takes pupils beyond first-hand experience : it enables them to project themselves into unfamiliar environments , times and cultures , to gain sympathetic understanding of other ways of life and to experience joy and sadness vicariously . |
| 2 | Among the reasons are greater mobility before retirement , which enables them to acquaint themselves with alternative residential locations , and the financial advantages of moving from larger to smaller houses , perhaps in less expensive areas ( Law and Warnes 1976 ) . |
| 3 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 4 | It does n't prevent them being ambitious and idealistic for themselves , or stop them comparing themselves with other students in their class , their school , in other parts of the country or the world . |
| 5 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 6 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 7 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 8 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 9 | When broadcasters were promoted they found themselves in administrative posts : talented people were rewarded with jobs which meant that they broadcast no longer . |
| 10 | as if in a corny love story , they found themselves in each other 's arms . |
| 11 | Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state . |
| 12 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 13 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 14 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 15 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 16 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 17 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 18 | They blamed themselves for this unfortunate marriage . |
| 19 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 20 | As two likeable gangsters running away from a vicious killer and the crack-selling Triads , Coltrane and Idle hide in a convent , where , inevitably , they find themselves in 101 dodgy situations . |
| 21 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |
| 22 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 23 | It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts . |
| 24 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 25 | He knew they soiled themselves with one another . |
| 26 | They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) . |
| 27 | When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 28 | Asked whether they saw themselves as feminist film-makers , for example , the four ( predictably ) came up with four different answers ranging from an unequivocal ‘ yes ’ to an almost indignant ‘ no ’ . |
| 29 | Settling down they formed themselves into small communities under one leader , this being the beginning of our village system as we know it now . |
| 30 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |