Example sentences of "themselves [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 2 | This happens most often when massive shoals of fry from that year 's spawning present themselves as an easy meal to a shoal of bream . |
| 3 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 4 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 5 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 6 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |
| 7 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 8 | As noted in Chapter 3 , there is no inherent power for partners to rid themselves of an unwanted colleague short of seeking a dissolution unless their partnership agreement contains express provision . |
| 9 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 10 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 11 | Hip hop is the sound of threatened individuals asserting themselves against an uncaring world , taking on all comers and dispensing rough ( social ) justice or vengeance . |
| 12 | ‘ Businesses appear to be looking at ways to market themselves with an increasing emphasis on mail-shots , public relations and advertising . |
| 13 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 14 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |
| 15 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 16 | But the Champenois were not unprepared : many houses were able to seal up their cellars ; those wishing to escape German occupation left for southern France , while others remained organising themselves into an effective network of resistance , the extent of which was unknown even to most Champenois . |
| 17 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 18 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 20 | On the basis of proposals put forward by Kohl the heads of state and government committed themselves in an annexed document to reach unanimous agreement by Dec. 31 , 1993 , on a treaty to establish a Central European Criminal Investigation Office ( " Europol " ) . |
| 21 | It thus appears that the formulators of the received tradition , with the exception of Mustakimzade ( who nevertheless provides the basis for the view taken by the later authors ) , have , by ignoring clear statements in the sources which they themselves use in regard to Abdulkerim , placed themselves in an untenable position also in regard to the dating of the Muftiliks of both Molla Husrev and Molla Arab . |
| 22 | The superintendent 's report asserted that though prostitutes did ply their calling on the common they conducted themselves in an orderly manner , as did large numbers of respectable , well-dressed courting couples who ‘ roamed about the place after dark caressing each other ’ . |
| 23 | Having put themselves in an extraordinary environment , which nevertheless feels so homely and ordinary , the members occasionally come into contact with wider , more powerful and less homely influences . |
| 24 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 25 | ‘ They went back to Suleiman 's house , ’ said the bearer , gratified , ‘ and barred themselves in an upper room . |
| 26 | I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid . |
| 27 | Irish catholics find themselves in an ambiguous relationship to Irish nationalism . |
| 28 | In comparison with ‘ conventional ’ offenders , corporate executives find themselves in an enviable position . |
| 29 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 30 | Emerging at the station in the City ( with fifteen minutes in hand , Helen noted to her relief ) they found themselves in an alien landscape . |