Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the bus itself was delayed , and so they got themselves on board . |
| 2 | Instead of stalks , they have a cluster of curling roots with which they attach themselves to coral or rocks . |
| 3 | They helped themselves to salad and Sara poured the wine . |
| 4 | At first they devoted themselves to self-education , fierce polemics against the populists , and propaganda among circles of selected workers . |
| 5 | Because administrators depended on their lord 's favour , they devoted themselves with vigour to Promoting his interests . |
| 6 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 7 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 8 | As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board . |
| 9 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 10 | When the history of our times comes to be written , They Organized Themselves to Death will be the only possible epitaph . |
| 11 | As early as Acts 6 we find the apostles seeking deputies to manage the administration Of the church , while they give themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word . |
| 12 | When in 92 B.C. somebody tried to establish a school of eloquence in Latin — presumably to serve some popularis cause — the censors of the day were firmly against it ; they declared themselves in favour of Greek , as against Latin , rhetoric ( Suet . |
| 13 | Rostov waited patiently while they arranged themselves in order of precedence and then touched hands with each . |
| 14 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 15 | As they came off the S-Bahn trains , drove their battered Trabants across the border crossing , or just walked through , they pinched themselves in disbelief . |
| 16 | They acquitted themselves with valour . |
| 17 | Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on . |
| 18 | After the class they treated themselves to lunch , cold poached salmon the first day and the best cut of cold beef the next , and wine to go with it , and a raffle amongst the six of them for a bottle . |
| 19 | In accordance with Article 115 of the Articles of Association they hold office until the Annual General Meeting when they offer themselves for election . |
| 20 | They offer themselves for re-election . |
| 21 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 22 | Hilton says they turn away from involvement in the world , and , in words which more immediately evoke the liberation and peace which are the goals of the rigours of contemplative life , he says that they : That is , they rid themselves from involvement with any possessions not strictly needed for physical survival and escape from the demands and goals of social success to a different kind of service . |
| 23 | When subjects arrive at the sleep laboratory in the evening for a night 's recording they prepare themselves for bed in the normal way . |
| 24 | It 's international in that they see themselves above nationhood , beyond patriotism , and they want the war to end . |
| 25 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |