Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 2 | In the case of an underlease the subtenant should always require right of the superior lease or leases to satisfy itself that there are no restrictions likely to affect the subtenant 's proposed use of the premises . |
| 3 | Accordingly you may have to adapt the day 's menu or recipes to suit yourself . |
| 4 | First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business . |
| 5 | But not , even after another fifteen years or so , culminating in the winter of discontent and in the fall of Mr Callaghan 's administration , experience enough to induce institutions and attitudes to accommodate themselves . |
| 6 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 7 | The professional 's role is necessarily at the supervisory and organisational level , guiding the parents by offering them techniques and skills to use themselves . |
| 8 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
| 9 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 10 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 11 | ‘ The Soviet Union is giving us oxygen — bread and weapons to defend ourselves , ’ said Suleman Laeq , the minister for tribes and nationalities . |
| 12 | If you 'd a husband and bairns to occupy yourself with , there 'd be none of this drawing and tootling on flutes . |
| 13 | The evidence of these obstacles and resistances is plain enough , not only in the slow , uncertain and frequently subverted extension of the right to vote which I have already indicated , but in the bitter hostility and violence that has always been directed against the attempts of ordinary citizens and workers to organize themselves in trade unions , cooperatives , community action groups , and similar bodies . |
| 14 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 15 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |
| 16 | Tiny protein structures protrude — like flagellae to help it move and pili to attach itself to surfaces . |
| 17 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 18 | It was the duty of merchants and craftsmen to trade honestly with one another , of husbandmen and artificers to apply themselves diligently to their labours and take pleasure in them , eschewing ostentation as well as hunting and hawking , which were the privileges of the gentry , nor wasting their time and substance in alehouses or playing unlawful games . |
| 19 | Undeniably , though , the space allowed for lesbians and gays to represent themselves remains very small . |
| 20 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 21 | It was n't like that in the past , till the betraying chiefs invented title deeds and laws to suit themselves — at the cost of the people who were tricked , pillaged and deported . |