Example sentences of "themselves [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart sank as she contemplated how , as usual , she would walk up , bleat out ‘ excuse me ’ and then be forced to wait , powerless , while they peeled themselves slowly and insolently away from the door . |
| 2 | Garrett and songwriter Rob Hirst both acquit themselves verbally and we see the horrid side of the Aboriginal lot , but the ultimate drift is that important chances have been missed here . |
| 3 | The latter will end by confirming or rejecting the original theory , but humans , being what they are , will usually manage to prove themselves right and join some kind of inquisition to make sure everyone else is proved right too . |
| 4 | As those behind came piling into the snarl-up , the Scottish schiltrons launched themselves downhill and cut the stumbling knights to pieces . |
| 5 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 6 | Some parents become confused when staining is due to children not wiping themselves properly and so they may need to teach their children more precisely how to wipe their bottom . |
| 7 | She said they had n't organised themselves properly and did n't listen to advise and instructions . |
| 8 | Even so , chromosomes are themselves long and thin and are not normally visible in the light microscope . |
| 9 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 10 | Some couples , highly intelligent and normally with a good command over words , manage to keep themselves endlessly but unknowingly confused . |
| 11 | Were the Essenes themselves perhaps but one manifestation of a single , broader movement ? |
| 12 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 13 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 14 | Two firemen roped themselves together and stripped off their heavy clothing to plunge into the 20ft deep lake in a desperate attempt to rescue the lads . |
| 15 | By now the US personnel had got themselves together and began to return fire and before Maryland was hit her gunners claimed a torpedo bomber . |
| 16 | They were n't the kind of people who could get themselves together and organized , it was a more and more the bottom end of the scale and people who were actually erm you know , really powerless in many ways . |
| 17 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 18 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 19 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 20 | Those who had somehow violated the bond of trust , friendship , loyalty — for reasons they may not always be able to discern — could find themselves suddenly and inexplicably cast out into the cold . |
| 21 | They do not place themselves inside or outside the Renaissance by anything they actually do : it is we who place them there ( or exclude them therefrom ) by opting for one definition of the term rather than another . |
| 22 | This leads to a process of amplification or snowballing : individuals who are caught and labelled as criminal see themselves so and act accordingly , thus the label becomes more widely applied and firmly fixed , and the criminal becomes more attached to that label . |
| 23 | I think this idea of , of writers shutting themselves away and writing has gone , you know , very |
| 24 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 25 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 26 | Employing themselves meanwhile and sucking their fingers most assid |
| 27 | ‘ Sit down and shut it , ’ growled two or three men , but the women were crossing themselves already and knocking over their stools in turning round . |
| 28 | The complexity of this issue lies in the fact that the TNCs are themselves directly and explicitly responsible for the ways in which such processes work out in most societies , but they are also often indirectly and implicitly responsible in ways that are hidden from view . |
| 29 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 30 | Soviet leaders never committed themselves ideologically and politically to Finland in the manner they did in Afghanistan . |