Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each side of this , hung blue-and-white check curtains , which were now drawn , to shut in the friends met to enjoy themselves . |
| 2 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 3 | They were not allowed to speak to anyone , had no books or entertainment and , in despair , some tried to kill themselves . |
| 4 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 5 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 6 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 7 | So the people when in need , tried to help themselves and failed . |
| 8 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 9 | The lawyers acting for the parents tried to present themselves as friends , representatives who would speak on behalf of the parents . |
| 10 | I also thought that there was a certain similarity in the way Steve McGarrett and Vincent Bugliosi tried to present themselves . ’ |
| 11 | The Greco-Macedonians tried to present themselves as more sympathetic masters than their predecessors . |
| 12 | In Chapter 5 we saw how natural philosophers , such as Boyle , tried to defend themselves against charges of encouraging materialistic atheism by suggesting that , since the natural world is God 's creation , the study of it leads towards , not away from , things spiritual . |
| 13 | The general drying out of northern Europe continued through the Permian , with insignificant interruptions such as the Zechstein sea ( when Carboniferous Limestone type conditions tried to reassert themselves ) . |
| 14 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |
| 15 | In central Africa influential movements such as Jehovah 's Witnesses were attractive to those who sought to set themselves apart and to adopt a puritan lifestyle . |
| 16 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 17 | I often wonder what the Hon. members of the Board thought about that trip , but they seemed to enjoy themselves and there were no repercussions . |
| 18 | The whole village has been renovated , and is kept going by volunteers , who seemed to enjoy themselves hugely , even tho' some of them had to clean up ( including black-leading a coal range ) . |
| 19 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 20 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 21 | As a result , many undoubtedly experienced deep feelings of isolation and alienation , and came to see themselves as prophets in the wilderness or pilgrims journeying through hostile territory . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was just due to the way he 'd been sleeping lately , a restless , shallow sleep full of dreams which never seemed to work themselves out properly , leaving him half-enmeshed in their elaborate complexities even after waking . |
| 23 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 24 | In the village surgery , there was the usual group of chatting neighbours , who seemed to find themselves so much at home that if Shelley had n't turned up , they would still have sat there quite happily , passing the time of day . |
| 25 | Erm fights after after blues parties , certainly seemed to sort themselves out . |
| 26 | This interest drove me to inquire in depth into the experiences and feelings of individuals and to try and identify the processes by which they came to define themselves and other people under one set of categories rather than another . |
| 27 | Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle-aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared . |
| 28 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |
| 29 | They 'd got themselves arrested , in dozens , and sentenced to terms of hard labour and transportation to Australia , as always happened . |
| 30 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |