Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in the eighteenth century all the European states had shown themselves reluctant to appoint full ambassadors without substantial reasons of expediency or tradition . |
| 2 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 3 | ‘ The Scottish lords have made themselves at home , ’ Agrippa muttered . |
| 4 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 5 | But it was even more clear that the Public Schools had adapted themselves rapidly and skilfully to the demands for a meritocracy as identified by Michael Young . |
| 6 | Sir Hector explained that the French representatives had found themselves out on a limb when they called for an increase in import charges . |
| 7 | The new , the really new , had to be possible , since all the old wisdoms had proved themselves ineffective . |
| 8 | Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms . |
| 9 | Many other animals of the tropical forests have adapted themselves to some means of gliding . |
| 10 | Although nearly all the industrialised nations have set themselves targets for stabilising or reducing carbon dioxide emissions , the US , by far the biggest emitter , has consistently refused . |
| 11 | Mother … high-hab whores whom the Lordly Phantasms had amused themselves with … those were mere spectres now , white ghosts . |
| 12 | The Bosnian deputies have given themselves a let-out by calling for a referendum on the peace plan on May 15th and 16th . |
| 13 | ‘ With the unexpected accession of their parents to the throne , ’ said the voice from the television , with that odd blend of reverence and condescension reserved for royalty and its doings , ‘ the little princesses had to reconcile themselves to seeing less and less of their mother and father . |
| 14 | The retail revolutionaries have burnt themselves out and one by one dropped exhausted by the wayside . |
| 15 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 16 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 17 | The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position . |
| 18 | Possibly because BIS confines itself to activity in the academic , college and research libraries ( where most library instruction takes place ) , and the various committees have set themselves more specific tasks , BIS seems to be a more successful co-operative and co-ordinating agency than LIRT . |
| 19 | The fact that the gung-ho tabloids have wrapped themselves in the Union Jack does not mean that they are accurately reflecting the public mood . |
| 20 | The dreaming spires had etched themselves deeply on my imagination . |
| 21 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 22 | In erm our situation dedicated persons on the front lines have found themselves overwhelmed by increases in human needs and dwindling resources with which to meet those human needs and so we 've tried to get innovative and do something about it . |
| 23 | An aspect of the purported effects of the political system is the policy co-option argument — that the extreme right , at least in recent years , has been unsuccessful because of the ease with which some of its appeals ( or some attenuated version of them ) can be adopted by major parties , after the former parties have shown themselves unable to break into the political system . |
| 24 | The Irish bishops have shown themselves none too keen on the holy sideshow at Ballinspittle where the statue of the Madonna in a grotto allegedly swayed . |
| 25 | The commencement power er will not be put into effect by the Home Secretary until he knows that the other countries have accommodated themselves to the new arrangements . |
| 26 | Let us hope , above all , that one or two of the genuine locals have established themselves before the season is over . |
| 27 | Here the four powers had carved themselves out oddly shaped zones amongst the rubble and devastation left by the Allied bombing . |
| 28 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 29 | Later , as the Prussians revoked statutes governing the activity of the Jews and laws preventing usury , the Kaszubian farmers began to find themselves heavily in debt . |
| 30 | At a time when there is such disaffection from socialism among many thinking people it is ironic to see the Christian churches attempting to accommodate themselves to what is at heart a devilish religion and ideology . |