Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] themselves to " in BNC.

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1 The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming .
2 The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon .
3 They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness .
4 Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water .
5 If the Pharisees and Scribes thought themselves to be so perfect that they were not aware of their own sin then little could be done for them .
6 Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion .
7 The general impression running through its pages was a riot of impunity , irresponsible parents , working mothers and lax discipline in schools , with magistrates and police believing themselves to be impotent before a rising tide of mischief and violence — particularly ‘ the recent serious increase of ruffianism among city youths ’ .
8 When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ .
9 Major questions about the individual and society have preoccupied thinkers in all periods of history : the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome reflected upon the way society operated and/or should operate , and for centuries afterwards social and political theorists and philosophers applied themselves to similar questions .
10 Teachers and students perceived themselves to be a low-status group , looked upon with increasing scorn by other sections of society , whatever the absolute figures for incomes and position were measured to be .
11 The report cited numerous examples of arbitrary arrest , torture and extra-judicial killing and called on Indian politicians to use the general election of May and June to commit themselves to ending seven years of " rampant human rights abuses " in the state .
12 Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War .
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