Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 2 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 3 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ The letter simply thanked me for what I had done and the senders signed themselves only as Berend 's Family . ’ |
| 5 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 6 | Except , because of the curiously selfless decision by the clubs to vote themselves half the financial liability , that figure is reduced to £3300 , which , divided by 11 , means an average payment per player of £300 . |
| 7 | While other girls with real mothers resisted all the attempts to gentrify themselves , Eve and Mother Francis studied books on etiquette and looked at magazines to see how nice people dressed , and to pick up any hints on behaviour . |
| 8 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 9 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 10 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 11 | Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’ |
| 12 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 13 | Why in such a case should the courts blind themselves to a clear indication of what Parliament intended in using those words ? |
| 14 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 15 | Here the courts see themselves as charged with evaluating such concepts further and , when necessary , imposing their own views . |
| 16 | The courts have themselves shown a willingness recently to subject the decisions of the police to the general principles developed in other areas of the law . |
| 17 | The Germans introduced themselves . |
| 18 | The stout plastic sacks are ripped open by sharp beaks , allowing the birds to help themselves to the contents . |
| 19 | Then the nuclei arrange themselves side by side and fuse into a single nucleus carrying the chromosomes of both sperm and ovum . |
| 20 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 21 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 22 | Anderson ( N.C. , 1983 ) held that the Board of Visitors should have exercised their discretion to allow legal representation in view of the seriousness of the charges and the potential penalty , the need for fairness between the parties involved and the ability of the prisoners to represent themselves . |
| 23 | In effect the molecules assemble themselves ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 105 , p 674 ) . |
| 24 | In line with the preference for heuristic pedagogies associated with RBL and a child-centred progressive ideology , all the proposals concerned themselves with information-handling skills of one sort or another . |
| 25 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 26 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 27 | For a few moments she managed fairly well , taking things slowly and steadily , using the sticks to propel herself along . |
| 28 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 29 | It was n't exactly true ; they were n't all rich and middle-class Iranians who had learned to survive the Revolution by paying lip service to it — then bending the rules to suit themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |