Example sentences of "[noun pl] give themselves [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time .
2 At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain .
3 Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads .
4 The hijackers gave themselves up after receiving assurances that they could seek asylum elsewhere .
5 The rebels gave themselves up to loyal officers later that day .
6 It was to be 24 days before the last hard-core protesters gave themselves up .
7 The aim was to get the Davidians to give themselves up .
8 Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond .
9 About 1,000 of the PKK forces gave themselves up to Iraqi Kurds who moved them to camps south of the Turkish border .
10 The attackers gave themselves up and the incident so shocked the student fraternity that further protests were muted for a time .
11 This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion .
12 A spokesman for the British UN forces in Vitez said the men gave themselves up into their protection after making their way from Travnik , where they had been held .
13 A priest was then brought in to mediate and the men gave themselves up .
14 But the siege ended peacefully after two unarmed men gave themselves up .
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