Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 2 | The three boys rearranged themselves rather self-consciously . |
| 3 | What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one . |
| 4 | Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards . |
| 5 | For many years before 1914 private house owners had been hit by an increasing share of rate levy , at a time when the costs of urban government were rising ; from the 1880s landlords found themselves in an increasingly difficult situation as demand fell and the burden of local taxation mounted . |
| 6 | Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | He was directed to a leather armchair by the empty fireplace while the two women seated themselves on dining chairs at the table . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The prosecution alleges the two men helped themselves to cash , having forced the two cashiers to lie on the floor at gunpoint . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So the Collector and Hookum Singh and half a dozen others prepared themselves to defend the drawing-room door , if necessary with bayonets as well as firearms . |