Example sentences of "and [verb] themselves [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 2 | In anglerfish ( above left ) the problem is solved because the males are parasitic and attach themselves permanently to females . |
| 3 | The men are trying to catch mine and hook themselves on to me as ‘ guides ’ . |
| 4 | Most of them abandoned their former preoccupations and devoted themselves instead to less controversial types of literary study , such as text exegesis ( Eikhenbaum and Boris Tomashevsky ) . |
| 5 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 6 | They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British … |
| 7 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 8 | Last night , four Georgian soldiers crossed the Tblisi lines , found their way through a minefield , and gave themselves up to a British journalist , Dicky Bowden . |