Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] themselves [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 2 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 3 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 4 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 5 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 6 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 7 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 8 | The rest divided themselves up amongst the remaining transport and set off with only enough petrol to cover the 400 miles to Jalo . |
| 9 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 10 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 11 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 12 | As supermodels price themselves out of the market , actresses are open to negotiation — a far better investment , says Glyn . |
| 13 | People setting themselves up as the philosophers and artists and intelligentsia and other people setting themselves up as their assessors ? |
| 14 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |
| 15 | Most academics involved in the study and teaching of local government lined themselves up behind the councils which they perceived to be under threat , in a centrally inspired attack on local democracy and local autonomy . |
| 16 | Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond . |
| 17 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 18 | When the dancing had reached its climax , the whole crowd flung themselves on to the floor and further worked themselves up into what looked like a communal epileptic fit . |
| 19 | The older men established themselves over by the fireplace . |
| 20 | In other words , some women defined themselves out of the labour market because they felt that they were unlikely to get paid work or because they believed that they had no right to paid work . |
| 21 | My head was splitting open now , black diamonds forcing themselves through from the inside . |