Example sentences of "and [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some minutes the short hairs on the disc of the leaf began to bend , then the long hairs , and laid themselves on the insect . |
| 2 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
| 3 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 4 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 5 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 6 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 7 | In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up . |
| 8 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 9 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 10 | They flittered down the stairs , Ginger Rogers a deux , and draped themselves round the nearest male , an elderly , pale faced banker — ‘ Allo , ’ they purred , ‘ 'Ow do you like sex ? ’ |
| 11 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 12 | Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them . |
| 13 | Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles . |
| 14 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 15 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
| 16 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 17 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 18 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 19 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 20 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 21 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 22 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 23 | They also agreed to resume constitutional negotiations , suspended since June [ see p. 38948 ] , and committed themselves to the election of a constituent assembly and the inauguration of a non-racial transitional government as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation . |
| 25 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 26 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 27 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
| 28 | Half running , half walking , they fled through the back garden , narrowly missing the Anderson , and threw themselves into the passage-way , the leaves swirling in after them . |
| 29 | Shots slammed into the walls inside the courtyard where the civilians cried and threw themselves on the ground . |
| 30 | So , in making their denials , they often make unseemly proclamations about their own heterosexuality , in the worst cases ( only too common ) dis-associating themselves from ‘ radical feminists ’ ( read lesbians ) and presenting themselves as the ones who are the reasonable moderates . |