Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 2 | They were not even deterred by some afternoon rain but carried on enjoying themselves kitted out in colourful Mickey Mouse ponchos . |
| 3 | The poll tax experience , though , shows that in some working-class areas , the population is extraordinarily mobile , and people are quite likely to change address during the year — effectively disenfranchising themselves . |
| 4 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 5 | And then Lord Pugh distributed the hands of the dead to those who had most distinguished themselves — to be wrought upon patiently over many years in their cells with scrimshaw designs . |
| 6 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 7 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 8 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 9 | But this does not stop people instinctively protecting themselves and kin substitutes . |
| 10 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 11 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 12 | In other words , it was said that they had an aversive effect and that , far from tempting those who had not experienced the acts to take part in them , they would put off those who might be tempted so to conduct themselves … " |
| 13 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 14 | If people try to apply a ‘ turning off the tap ’ strategy when they are hopping up and down in scalding water they may merely make themselves feel worse . |
| 15 | Lots of young people all enjoying themselves . |
| 16 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 17 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 18 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 19 | When the various occult organisations get wind of the non-existent secret 's existence , of course , they take it in deadly earnest and will stop at nothing to discover it and so make themselves Masters of the World . |
| 20 | Thus , Sabino Arana invents the name Euskadi for the country of the people who had long given themselves , and been given , a collective name ( Basques , Gascons or whatever ) , but without feeling the need for the sort of country , state or nation Arana had in mind . |
| 21 | Billy Fullerton 's Protestant gang from Bridgeton wreaked havoc on Catholics , especially if they incautiously made themselves easy targets by wearing a Celtic scarf . |
| 22 | It was great to see so many climbers just having a go and obviously enjoying themselves . |
| 23 | Mike and Anne are having a ball and the dogs are obviously enjoying themselves , especially Angie [ the older white poodle ] who is a natural show off but Tammy still keeps beating her . |
| 24 | But their versatility and the unpredictability of the individual moral dilemma , including , in particular , the implications of competing reasons which may be brought to bear , make it impossible to specify the courses of action in support of which these reasons will necessarily lend themselves . |
| 25 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 26 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 27 | Garner and Croft were by now both injured , but West Indies suddenly found themselves up against some determination . |
| 28 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 29 | Eagle-spotting was becoming a national pastime and experts on birds of prey suddenly found themselves being quoted in every paper or interviewed on radio and television . |
| 30 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |