Example sentences of "and [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards . |
| 2 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
| 3 | Departments , including costume and design , have started to operate the system , in which they cost their own services and sell themselves to BBC programmes . |
| 4 | They float right through the glass and make themselves at home . |
| 5 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 6 | In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up . |
| 7 | Creatures often seem to have gone out of their way to find him and display themselves to him . |
| 8 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 9 | There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) . |
| 10 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 11 | The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position . |
| 12 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 13 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
| 14 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 15 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 16 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 17 | One of the positive aspects of strong bosses is that they fight against injustice , and show themselves to be externally strong characters . |
| 18 | Then , for the second time that evening , all three of them made their way to Puddephat 's window and let themselves into his rooms . |
| 19 | When on the ground , they walk on the sides of their clenched feet and support themselves with their hands . |
| 20 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 21 | FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM don the wide brimmed hats and cover themselves in flour for two nights of doom laden entertainment at London 's Town & Country Club on March 29 and 30 . |
| 22 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 23 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 24 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 25 | They indicate that their holders identify with their society and hold themselves to be under an obligation to obey the law which they regard as expressing that attitude . |
| 26 | My wife is English and four of my children live and work in the south of England and consider themselves to be English . |
| 27 | Social policy planners in particular are perplexed and tie themselves in appalling knots trying to work out equitable ways of dealing with this anomalous creature . |
| 28 | If the children have attended another school ask them what is was like , what they enjoyed most and , in all cases , reassure them that they are going to make lots of friends , learn a great deal of interesting things and enjoy themselves at your school . |
| 29 | State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Some try and hang themselves on lamp-posts outside men 's houses , but I do n't know any of that sort . |