Example sentences of "they could [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 2 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |
| 3 | They had no church affiliation : some were hurt , others were strong , but they all found they could commit themselves heart and soul to what we were doing . |
| 4 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 5 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 6 | There was a bell at the end , which was rung by the ticket-collector or guard to warn the women of his approach so that they could cover themselves appropriately . |
| 7 | Well they they were all no well you could maybe aye they help aye but er usually they had as much as they could do themselves you see . |
| 8 | But provoking discussion among the trainees of some straightforward opening questions may reassure them that they could cope themselves , at least initially , with Sheila . |
| 9 | As a child , reading her mother 's collection of Victorian novels , Edwardian novels , she had wondered how women could bear to renounce their position in the centre of the matrimonial stage , the sexual arena , how they could bring themselves to consent to adopt the role of chaperon , to sit at the edge of the dance on little gilt-legged chairs gossiping and watching , spectators , as the younger ones innocently paired , as the older ones not so innocently paired , in the ever-changing formations of the floor . |
| 10 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 11 | They could protect themselves at least as well by simply keeping their heads down . ’ |
| 12 | It is a reasonable assumption that people will find it easier to accept a product if it appears in a context into which they could fit themselves , being used by people whom they could — or would like to — resemble . |
| 13 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 14 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 15 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 16 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 17 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 18 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 19 | And they wanted to know how they could immunize themselves , so that they would not succumb in their turn . |
| 20 | Mining remained a craft until the early part of the last war , with each collier taking a boy as a kind of ‘ apprentice ’ into his stall ; and in some instances trying him out later with another boy , both under supervision in an adjacent stall , until they could prove themselves to be master-craftsmen , able to work the stall and be trusted to look after themselves . |
| 21 | So they copied the things that the men could , they could see themselves and may be using . |
| 22 | Kick their bloody backsides , then rub their noses against a mirror until they could see themselves as they really are . |
| 23 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 24 | After working in all the major cities on the Continent , they could allow themselves a little self praise . |
| 25 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 26 | Whilst the umpires are counting bouncers at one end they could find themselves assessing ‘ pad play ’ at the other . |
| 27 | Should any other fishermen ignore the warning of Hooper and sail out into the weather , they could find themselves drawn inexorably back to shore , even against the tide . |
| 28 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 29 | Palace 's recent turnaround in form gives some cause for optimism that their relegation fears will recede in the New Year , but if Howard Wilkinson 's men continue to falter they could find themselves being unthinkably dragged into the mire . |
| 30 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |