Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 2 | According to General Accident , about 50,000 drivers find themselves stranded on the autobahn every year . |
| 3 | Back in 1983–84 , around 20 or 30 individuals styled themselves the Polo Posse — later Lo Lifes — setting out to steal ( ‘ boost ’ ) Ralph Lauren gear to wear , and resell to the growing number of black kids turning from the B-boy aesthetic to the preppy look , going from LL Cool J to LL Bean . |
| 4 | 5 Universities , 8 Colleges and 7 Polytechnics listed themselves as having staff with graduate qualifications in linguistics or applied linguistics . |
| 5 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 6 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 7 | At least three cases suggest themselves : |
| 8 | What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one . |
| 9 | During the second-ballot campaign for the Conservative leadership , after the preacher of the admirable ‘ Sermon on the Mound ’ had withdrawn , all three candidates acknowledged themselves ( in separate interviews carried by the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme ) as belonging to the Church of England . |
| 10 | There is no self-evident motivation for these intrusions , but three hypotheses present themselves : |
| 11 | Three difficulties present themselves : |
| 12 | Even if the walker or climber has an ice axe they only have two or three seconds to stop themselves before their bodies , often clad in slippy waterproofs , pick up speed . |
| 13 | Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards . |
| 14 | The three boys rearranged themselves rather self-consciously . |
| 15 | So the Collector and Hookum Singh and half a dozen others prepared themselves to defend the drawing-room door , if necessary with bayonets as well as firearms . |
| 16 | This view is supported by the strong commitment of College staff ( 9 out of 13 institutions had 6+ staff with a prime commitment to language ) , whereas only 4 universities listed themselves as having even 1–2 people primarily committed to Language in Education . |
| 17 | Bolivian miners marched on La Paz to protest and , when the government refused to meet them , 29 miners had themselves ‘ crucified ’ for 24 hours at the university . |
| 18 | In fact the day before this instruction was issued to all units , 6 Armoured Division in Italy had already taken the surrender of a group headed by Gen Damjanovic of some 10,000 men describing themselves as Chetniks and Royalists , accompanied by upwards of a thousand civilians , including women and children [ KP 48 ] . |
| 19 | A sharp shout of command — twelve troopers ranged themselves across the road . |
| 20 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 21 | For many years before 1914 private house owners had been hit by an increasing share of rate levy , at a time when the costs of urban government were rising ; from the 1880s landlords found themselves in an increasingly difficult situation as demand fell and the burden of local taxation mounted . |
| 22 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 23 | FOR THE thoughtful punter , with cash in hand , at least two openings present themselves this morning — the Grand National and next week 's General Election . |
| 24 | One author cited his own thesis seven times , out of a total of 10 citations , and two authors cited themselves six times — one of whom provided all of his total citation count . |
| 25 | Ruth looked at the cup in his hands , and two pictures presented themselves — Gran with all the anxiety gone from her face , and Undry full of light like the sea . |
| 26 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 27 | And so they depart — on board ship — ( The two SPIES position themselves on either side of the PLAYER , and the three of them sway gently in unison , the motion of a boat ; and then the PLAYER detaches himself. ) — and they arrive — ( One SPY shades his eyes at the horizon. ) — and disembark — and present themselves before the English king- ( He wheels round . ) |
| 28 | Under the terms of an agreement , signed on July 14 , the two parties committed themselves to a temporary truce from July 19 to be followed by a complete ceasefire on July 31 . |
| 29 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 30 | Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself . |