Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 2 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 3 | Two guards on skis had infiltrated themselves between the high wire and the high wooden fence and covered the growing mass of prisoners with their rifles . |
| 4 | Thus the Somme offensive dragged on until , with the advent of winter rains in mid-November , when the exhausted , hungry men could no longer drag themselves through the deepening mud , it died away in disappointment and despair . |
| 5 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 6 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 7 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 8 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 9 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 10 | The delegates , again often chosen by public meetings , saw themselves as the aroused mass of principled antislavery , cutting across the political and religious differences of their communities . |
| 11 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 12 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 13 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 14 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 17 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |
| 18 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |
| 19 | what is it about cup ties … why do teams lift themselves for the big game … why ca n't they play like this every week … if they did they ; d be top of the league … |
| 20 | It is a short step from such a view to ‘ blaming ’ older people themselves for the fiscal dilemma , another version of blaming the victim . |
| 21 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 22 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |
| 23 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 24 | Self-help groups can be very useful and ideally every physician caring for diabetics should have access to a person skilled in helping people to rid themselves of the smoking habit . |
| 25 | The Brazilians want to remind themselves of the British style before they meet Scotland in Italy . |
| 26 | If the guest is settling the bill by credit card they can avail themselves of the express check-out service . |
| 27 | With all due respect to those who intended to avail themselves of the free offer , the first two appointments were not met with sufficient organization to permit cost-effective equipment testing . |
| 28 | Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions … |
| 29 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 30 | But protecting themselves against the deadly virus by practising safer sex is another matter . |