Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used as an integral part of teaching they lend themselves to workshops and multi-media situations . |
| 2 | When subjects arrive at the sleep laboratory in the evening for a night 's recording they prepare themselves for bed in the normal way . |
| 3 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 4 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 5 | During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management . |
| 6 | As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board . |
| 7 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 8 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 9 | Since 1981 German car makers have lowered the share of a car 's value they produce themselves from nearly 40% to less than 35% . |
| 10 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |