Example sentences of "[verb] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 2 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 3 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 4 | Supporters of this option claim it reinstates the spectacle of demo-cracy , while critics content themselves with pointing out that it is currently used in Iceland , Bosnia , and parts of Turkey . |
| 5 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 6 | Someone must always have discharged these duties ; but the mention of these officials in eleventh-century households pointed to two developments : firstly , a conscious imitation of Carolingian ways ( for Charlemagne and his heirs had surrounded themselves with seneschals and stewards ) , and secondly , a revived interest in administration . |
| 7 | ‘ The staff have really shown their skills in producing this range of foods , ’ said Janet , ‘ and on special occasions , such as Christmas and Easter , they have excelled themselves with superb cakes and eggs . ’ |
| 8 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 9 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 10 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 11 | Warfare was the means by which the upper classes provided themselves with exercise and occupation , and justified their existence . |
| 12 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 13 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 14 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 15 | Although the band could now operate without digging into the personal pocket of Joe Moss ( previously he had financed all the band 's expenses ) , Marr , Morrissey , Rourke and Joyce still found themselves with little personal money . |
| 16 | As well as causing a breakdown in the economic system , the inflation led to a spread of corruption ; it meant humiliation for many thousands of families , whilst a few successful speculators found themselves with untold wealth . |
| 17 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 18 | At the same time Domark , owners of a plethora of Bond licences , found themselves with the rights to Live and Let Die ; a film with a particularly violent speedboat sequence . |
| 19 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 20 | The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing . |
| 21 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 22 | Oil producers found themselves with large dollar surpluses which they did not wish to deposit in the USA , partly as we have seen because of the prevailing regulations but also for political reasons . |
| 23 | In 1990 sales of cars , video cameras and leisure related services boomed as consumers found themselves with higher disposable incomes because of wage increases averaging 6 per cent , at least double the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | Once the original cease-fire had been put into effect in 1988 , both parties found themselves with immense tasks of reconstruction to contend with and little , apart from their battered oil-export systems , with which to finance them . |
| 25 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 26 | However , many difficulties immediately suggest themselves with this use of hoards . |
| 27 | The rail unions staged a series of strikes over poor pay and BR insistence on an end to collective bargaining , and were somewhat surprised to find themselves with public sympathy despite many complete network shutdowns . |
| 28 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |
| 29 | Forest Goblins decorate themselves with colourful feathers , often sticking the quills directly into their skin as Goblins feel little pain . |
| 30 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |