Example sentences of "need [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors need to inform themselves thoroughly about the current state of the school building before they accept responsibility for it . |
| 2 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 3 | This time , alas , there is little to cheer and they need to pick themselves up for this Saturday 's basement battle against Chester . |
| 4 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 5 | ‘ The Churches in Europe need to organise themselves to meet the challenges that lie ahead of them ’ . |
| 6 | On a wider note , authors need to organise themselves to redress the current imbalance of power . |
| 7 | Maybe more men in Stockton need to assert themselves . |
| 8 | For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens . |
| 9 | The places where living things live , the ways that they live and the relationships between them , crucially depend upon their ability to acquire the materials they need to keep themselves intact . |
| 10 | The Socialists need to redefine themselves as a definitively ex-Marxist party that is nevertheless keener on social fairness ( and better at keeping Greece green and clean ) than its conservative rival . |
| 11 | We would generally feel that the welfare of people who need to knock themselves out with some kind of drug and need to spend a large part of their lives thus self-narcotised is less good than that of people who do not need to . |
| 12 | At this point , Christians need to protect themselves against over-reaction . |
| 13 | Land animals need to protect themselves from drying out , so scales were exchanged for an impervious skin ( although some amphibians can control the admission of water through their skin with the aid of hormones ) . |
| 14 | Other countries are not so justified in saying they spend so much on military equipment because they need to protect themselves , like Iraq . |
| 15 | Michaelmas daisies , which flower as late as October , are a good source of nectar for peacocks and tortoiseshells that need to build themselves up before hibernating for the winter . |
| 16 | Teacher training institutions therefore still need to address themselves to the issues outlined in the survey : |
| 17 | But most buyers need to ask themselves how often — if ever — they need such ultimate traction , and what else they could do with £2000 . |
| 18 | Like the canal owners of the last century and the publishers of the present one , booksellers also need to ask themselves what business they are in . |
| 19 | Many governments round the world say that they spend a lot of money on military equipment because they need to defend themselves against other countries that might try to take over their territory . |
| 20 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |
| 21 | About fifteen of the boys said that they felt some need to prove themselves to the others and to become known to them by name . |
| 22 | And although some of them were a lot less well-off than they had been , they still seemed to get away with most things , feeling not the least need to prove themselves , she supposed , like herself and Lizzie Braithwaite , and Maria Colclough , and Ethel Lord . |
| 23 | Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again . |
| 24 | All primary teachers need to familiarise themselves with the requirements for history at Key Stage 2 ( see Boxes 9 and 10 ) . |