Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 2 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |
| 3 | The rest , some sick of national stereotyping , listed themselves as Yugoslavs , Turks , Jews , Gypsies , Eskimos , Giraffes or Lampshades . |
| 4 | In 1864 the Mercury complained about the ‘ country louts who disfigured themselves by daubing their faces with red and black paint , and by weaning bonnets , gowns and shawls … ’ |
| 5 | More likely , they sustained themselves by a mixture of both strategems . |
| 6 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 7 | Even though we may say , ‘ Make yourself at home ’ , we might be a little taken aback if they took us at our word and kicked off their shoes , lounged around on the settee , helped themselves to our coffee , tea , larder and even our wine ! |
| 8 | The raiders helped themselves to salami and Christmas cake and fed the guard dog to keep it quiet . |
| 9 | The pair helped themselves to £22,000 mortgage pensions with funds from City investment company Bishop Skinner Financial Services , it was said . |
| 10 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 11 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 12 | On the first day , Chris left out a bowl of fruit and the children — unused to seeing such a wide variety — helped themselves to the lot . |
| 13 | Everyone helped themselves to food . |
| 14 | They helped themselves to salad and Sara poured the wine . |
| 15 | But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel . |
| 16 | This is the moment that the group , believed to be a family , helped themselves to jewellery worth more than £3,000 at the Hatton House Jewellers in Bletchley . |
| 17 | He was told to unlock the premises and his assailants then helped themselves to a large quantity of cigarettes and cash . |
| 18 | Thieves helped themselves to a number of televisions off the back of a lorry parked at Woodside Cafe , at Knayton , near Thirsk , while the driver had his breakfast . |
| 19 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 20 | Blimey , everybody helped themselves to my toffee without asking |
| 21 | Guests helped themselves from a buffet where a hot luncheon of delicious children 's food was served , included sausages , goulash , and open baked potatoes with a pat of butter inside . |
| 22 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 23 | The Swedes helped themselves in 1648 and Josef II held a number of spectacularly philistine art auctions at the end of the 18C . |
| 24 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 25 | Warfare was the means by which the upper classes provided themselves with exercise and occupation , and justified their existence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 28 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 29 | They often coiled themselves round hills . |
| 30 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |