Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 2 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 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 | These are practical sessions where students and tutors prepare themselves for work with children in the second half of the term . |
| 5 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 6 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 7 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 8 | With the slump in building work , the market forces reversed and contractors found themselves in a fiercely competitive market with tenders very keenly priced . |
| 9 | Tone regulating — filmogenic actions help prevent facial expressions and movements transforming themselves into visible signs of skin ageing . |
| 10 | The evidence of these obstacles and resistances is plain enough , not only in the slow , uncertain and frequently subverted extension of the right to vote which I have already indicated , but in the bitter hostility and violence that has always been directed against the attempts of ordinary citizens and workers to organize themselves in trade unions , cooperatives , community action groups , and similar bodies . |
| 11 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 12 | Susan told herself that she must keep calm , must n't let nerves and muscles knot themselves into the familiar ache of worry . |
| 13 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 16 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 17 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 18 | Several pests and diseases manifest themselves upon aquatic plants . |
| 19 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
| 22 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 23 | Cook was worshipped as Lono , god of peace and of surfing , and priests prostrated themselves before him . |
| 24 | Bizarrely , the fun is punctuated by impromptu shower shows ( yes , really , the restaurant has two showers installed in telephone boxes ) of waterbabes and boys working themselves into a lather . |
| 25 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sunshine three hundred and fifty days a year , and Californians fry themselves under microwaves . |
| 29 | Moths and bugs and spiders conceal themselves in crannies of the bark . |
| 30 | In one she lay spread-eagled on the tiled floor on which Trueman had met his death , with the playful nymphs and shepherds entwining themselves around her . |