Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 2 | where women examine themselves erm , if its the mother or the granny er did I bring him up wrongly , erm the girl friends or wife 's er is it something that I did n't understand and at the same time it er really changes their lives |
| 3 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 4 | Shelduck first bred in Sussex in 1904 but , although numbers established themselves round Chichester and Pagham Harbours fairly quickly , colonisation of the rest of the county has been slow and the breeding population is still mainly concentrated around these two harbours . |
| 5 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
| 6 | Although environmentalists declared themselves disappointed at the outcome of the meeting , they acknowledged that substantial progress towards some form of comprehensive protection for Antarctica 's environment had been achieved . |
| 7 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 8 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 9 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 10 | If subroutines call themselves recursively , a stack must be implemented to hold the return addresses . |
| 11 | The other alternative is to claim that the very constitution of individuals as intentional subjects serves to legitimate capitalist modes of production , for only if individuals perceive themselves as free agents will these alienating arrangements seem tolerable . |
| 12 | You 'll be wanting your breakfast and here I am , standing here as if eggs cooked themselves . |
| 13 | If teachers regard themselves as professionally accountable to themselves and their colleagues then they have accepted a commitment to the maintenance and improvement of their practice . |
| 14 | In letters to Edward Carpenter written in December 1893 and January 1894 , Robert Blatchford said : ‘ Perhaps I 'm a prejudiced old Tory ; but the whole subject is ‘ 'nasty' ’ to me … if Socialists identify themselves with any sweeping changes in sexual relations the Industrial Change will be seriously retarded . |
| 15 | If Snotlings find themselves themselves further than 12″ away from a unit of Orcs or Goblins , and if they can not move to within 12″ of a unit during that movement phase , then they mill around in a confused mass . |
| 16 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 17 | Such an event can take place only if ministers allow themselves to become seriously out of touch with the opinions of their supporters . |
| 18 | And because organisms replicate themselves , they could be far less expensive than chemical or mechanical methods . |
| 19 | Firstly that they 're more likely to get it , but secondly that that greater likelihood is because women perceive themselves as being constantly dealt with at the on the basis that they are sexual objects . |
| 20 | Independent radio stations had been shut down , while troops stationed themselves outside newspapers offices and took over transmission towers . |
| 21 | Supporters of this option claim it reinstates the spectacle of demo-cracy , while critics content themselves with pointing out that it is currently used in Iceland , Bosnia , and parts of Turkey . |
| 22 | These notices brought clients into local CABx while advisers found themselves unprepared for their enquiries . |
| 23 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 24 | cigar , while numbers counted themselves discreetly . |
| 25 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 26 | And thus , all over Northam , all over Britain , ill-remembered , confused , shadowy vestigial rites were performed , rites with origins lost in antiquity ; Celtic , Pict , Roman , Norse , Anglo-Saxon , Norman , Elizabethan , Hanoverian , Judaic rites : mistletoe dangled from drawing-pins and picture rails , golden stars shone on the Christmas Trees of Prince Albert and geese and haggis and hams lay heavy on the digestion of some , while others laughed themselves silly or sick on rum and coke at the Maid Marian New Year 's Superdisco . |
| 27 | Should the voters ' verdict prove inconclusive , Whitehall will find itself in a state of unwelcome limbo while politicians sort themselves out . |
| 28 | In short lesbians and gay men are assumed to influence young people over their sexuality , whilst heterosexuals assume themselves to be neutral . |
| 29 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 30 | As Spurs over-extended themselves , Forest re-discovered their prowess on the counter and sealed victory . |