Example sentences of "themselves up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 2 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 3 | THE 120 musicians of the great Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra shut themselves up in a secret conclave yesterday and elected a conductor who is almost the exact opposite of the late Herbert von Karajan : the Italian Claudio Abbado . |
| 4 | Konitz acknowledges that there is some basis in his history for this view : he and his 1950s musical guru , the pianist Lennie Tristano , in a sense set themselves up as a ( white ) alternative school to bebop : ‘ Tristano was keen to prove that whites could play jazz , though Charlie Parker , Lester Young and Louis Armstrong were his heroes . |
| 5 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 6 | They have n't worked in the clubs and colleges , building themselves up over the years . |
| 7 | Girls kissed with their eyes closed and raising themselves up on tiptoe , because that was the cute shot in American movies . |
| 8 | We must never forget that the history of kinship presented there is primarily a criticism of capitalist society and that Marx and Engels were not attempting to set themselves up as anthropologists . |
| 9 | Michaelmas daisies , which flower as late as October , are a good source of nectar for peacocks and tortoiseshells that need to build themselves up before hibernating for the winter . |
| 10 | This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion . |
| 11 | not so much in the earliest days , when US producers had not yet sufficiently geared themselves up to satisfy the demands of their market , so that British exports to the States were largely unproblematic . |
| 12 | And the Greens have also set themselves up . |
| 13 | In an attempt to grab the Republicans ' ‘ hot-button ’ issue , the Democrats are now dressing themselves up as the anti-quota party . |
| 14 | This has coaxed the three Ochoa brothers , who run a blue-chip Medellin cocaine business , to give themselves up . |
| 15 | Garner and Croft were by now both injured , but West Indies suddenly found themselves up against some determination . |
| 16 | That 's why they keep themselves to themselves up there . ’ |
| 17 | Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens . |
| 18 | This lack of organization was compounded by the fact that many trades councils set themselves up as councils of action to run the dispute it the local level . |
| 19 | They 'll trip themselves up trying to keep time to that , wo n't they ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know if a lot of men put themselves up against that . ’ |
| 21 | His shaven eyebrows worked themselves up and down as he shouted . |
| 22 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 23 | Other kindred spirits were self-made gentiles , like Norman Tebbit , Cecil Parkinson or John Major , whose capacity to drag themselves up by their bootstraps appealed to her Methodist conscience . |
| 24 | While Quins are in danger of attracting even more coconuts for continuing to select a player who plainly is no longer fully resident in England , Leicester have to pick themselves up after a cup defeat that , effectively , ended the hunt for any of the season 's trophies . |
| 25 | In St Albans last year two IRA terrorists blew themselves up as they were planting a 5lbs to 7lbs Semtex bomb destined for Royal Marines bandsmen . |
| 26 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 27 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 28 | The opportunity to gain this type of employment on the island encouraged a number of young people to return from the mainland of Scotland and use the off-farm income to help set themselves up in farming . |
| 29 | This was particularly so in Orkney where the income from the oil industry was being used by young Orcadians to set themselves up in farming . |
| 30 | After the military disasters of 1192 , the Christian soldiers and crusader knights had taken refuge at Beaufort under Renaud , Prince of Sayette , and shut themselves up inside the fortress as the armies of Saladin arrived to lay siege to them . |