Example sentences of "and [vb past] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some minutes the short hairs on the disc of the leaf began to bend , then the long hairs , and laid themselves on the insect . |
| 2 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 3 | Some were of servile status and others free , although with the passage of time more and more secured their freedom ( Ch.4 ) , some might occupy barely enough land to sustain themselves and their families , while others accumulated substantial farms and became themselves employers of labour . |
| 4 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 5 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 6 | Former land owners could still gain full compensation for land up to a value of 1,000,000 forint if they undertook to cultivate the land for five years and registered themselves as entrepreneurs under a system of " entrepreneurial assistance " . |
| 7 | But to sit here , like one of the effeminate fools smirking over there or , worse still , like Antonini and Ferrante and the others he 'd spotted , who boasted of the conquests they made of the long-legged girls who dreamed of jewels and furs and sold themselves so easily — to sit here , to even be in the same room with such men , made him feel filthy . |
| 8 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 9 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 10 | Since it has already been mentioned , let us take the case of the so-called Breeches Bible , from the reading in Genesis iii.7 ‘ and they sowed fig leaves together , and made themselves breeches . |
| 11 | ‘ And they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together , and made themselves aprons . ’ |
| 12 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 13 | They flittered down the stairs , Ginger Rogers a deux , and draped themselves round the nearest male , an elderly , pale faced banker — ‘ Allo , ’ they purred , ‘ 'Ow do you like sex ? ’ |
| 14 | And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching . |
| 15 | The West Midlands theatre group raised £5,000 to take Sticks and Stones , the play they wrote , directed and produced themselves , to Russia . |
| 16 | Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them . |
| 17 | Swords and dirks drawn , they ran up , threw open the great door , and flung themselves within . |
| 18 | At which point two other giant rats sprang from the lower part of the building , jaws agape , and flung themselves at her . |
| 19 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 20 | Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles . |
| 21 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 22 | Subjects reporting gratifying dreams , including themes of eating and drinking during the course of the night , also drank less in the morning , and rated themselves as less thirsty than those who had not . |
| 23 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 24 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 25 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 26 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 27 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 28 | And she clapped her hands together , and suddenly they all rose in the air , man , woman , house , glass flasks , heap of dust , and found themselves out on a cold hillside where stood the original little grey man with Otto the hound . |
| 29 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 30 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |