Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 2 | ‘ In America the police in major cities run courses that teach women to defend themselves , particularly against rape . |
| 3 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 4 | To her amusement , two black-cloaked figures in full face masks and tricorn hats detached themselves from a group on a parapet and arranged themselves in exaggerated attitudes of extreme sorrow , one studying a rose , the other a silver mirror . |
| 5 | Yet growing numbers of boyar and state peasants found themselves subjected to the harsh rule of small landowners . |
| 6 | Although excellent results may follow from sowings in March , yet in many districts the soil is then likely to be too wet and cold , particularly for the smaller seeded species like timothy , rough-stalked meadow-grass , white and alsike clovers to establish themselves satisfactorily . |