Example sentences of "and [vb base] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They float right through the glass and make themselves at home . |
| 2 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 3 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 4 | FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM don the wide brimmed hats and cover themselves in flour for two nights of doom laden entertainment at London 's Town & Country Club on March 29 and 30 . |
| 5 | State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Structures predominantly based on tensile members offer big savings in self weight and lend themselves to lightweight and long span conditions . |
| 7 | Parents who have read this book and find themselves in agreement with the concept of a religion based on the Created God will realise that ritual has no part in it . |
| 8 | I , I 'm sorry to keep saying ‘ Yes ’ to everything that you 're , you 're suggesting , but yes , we are thinking about communication skills , particularly the encouraging and helping children to learn to write properly , I do n't mean calligraphy , I mean actually write and express themselves on paper , oral communication , and things of this kind are things that we do want to pay attention to . |
| 9 | In Gregg Araki 's The Living End , two guys discover they are HIV positive and abandon themselves to violence . |
| 10 | Corporate life is changing as companies realize that they need more than young managers who demand high starting salaries , work a standard day , keep in line , and concern themselves about security . |
| 11 | Hall uses the Marxist philosopher Althusser and the social psychology of Laclau to argue that politics is not just about individuals and social groups pursuing their immediate material interests ; it is also about how they imagine and identify themselves in relation to the wider social world . |