Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 8 | Two explanations suggest themselves . |
| 9 | Two alternatives suggest themselves . |
| 10 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 11 | Two activists handcuffed themselves to her fence . |
| 12 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 13 | Meeting for the first time , the two leaders declared themselves " determined to do all in our power to end the catastrophe resulting from the combined effects of the war and drought in our country " . |
| 14 | Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond . |
| 15 | Two men calling themselves Laurel and Hardy threatened to poison tubes of toothpaste unless Colgate handed over £170,000 , the Old Bailey was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 17 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 18 | The prosecution alleges the two men helped themselves to cash , having forced the two cashiers to lie on the floor at gunpoint . |
| 19 | In October 1950 when Lehmann had a reconciliation lunch with Keith Vaughan at the Ivy restaurant after some disagreement , the two men found themselves discussing Minton and Ricky Stride ‘ and the morality of letting a friend ruin himself if that is his deepest impulse ’ . |
| 20 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 21 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 22 | He was directed to a leather armchair by the empty fireplace while the two women seated themselves on dining chairs at the table . |
| 23 | Two women shook themselves out . |
| 24 | In its first six months , the Newham Independent Counselling Service project has taken seven referrals from the SSD , two women referred themselves , and one came via her family . |
| 25 | Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications . |
| 26 | Two choices present themselves . |
| 27 | As far as human awareness is concerned , the two impulses manifest themselves in a strict relation : only so much Dionysiac experience is permitted to the individual consciousness as can be controlled by the Apolline and translated into its life-sustaining terms . |
| 28 | Here , two scenarios presented themselves . |
| 29 | Two firemen roped themselves together and stripped off their heavy clothing to plunge into the 20ft deep lake in a desperate attempt to rescue the lads . |