Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 2 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 3 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 4 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 5 | These are practical sessions where students and tutors prepare themselves for work with children in the second half of the term . |
| 6 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom will continue to develop our good relations with the Soviet Union and its republics , and to encourage their integration into the world economy ; and will work to help Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania re-establish themselves in the international community . |
| 8 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 9 | [ PAMELA and BELVILLE dress themselves for the Masquerade ; PAMELA as a Puritan girl and BELVILLE as a Spanish nobleman . |
| 10 | Nicky and Enya pride themselves on their rows ; ‘ I was basically just left to concentrate on music , ’ says Enya . |
| 11 | The accommodation is cool and spotless and staff pride themselves on offering a warm welcome . |
| 12 | Although Rein and Miller describe themselves as ‘ normative egalitarians ’ , any of the above positions may not be close to the view of the majority of economists or , more importantly , of the public at large . |
| 13 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 14 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 15 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 16 | Thus , the world and man reveal themselves by undertakings . |
| 17 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 18 | Several pests and diseases manifest themselves upon aquatic plants . |
| 19 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 20 | Now he is playing solicitor Spettigue , whose niece and ward misbehave themselves by having an unchaperoned lunch at Oxford University with a couple of male students . |
| 21 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 22 | Sunshine three hundred and fifty days a year , and Californians fry themselves under microwaves . |
| 23 | Moths and bugs and spiders conceal themselves in crannies of the bark . |
| 24 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 25 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |