Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , in July 1945 , with the successful testing of the atomic bomb , the Allied found themselves in possession of the means to cut short the war . |
| 2 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
| 3 | ‘ I think your friend Billy and his fellow commandos were a bit peeved to find themselves here after the horse had bolted , so to speak . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone will be free to enjoy themselves as they wish , but we shall be arranging a programme of optional sightseeing excursions and activities on a daily basis , which will ensure you miss nothing of the best the region has to offer . |
| 5 | The vast waiting lists of the local authorities , as well as the existing local authority houses , contain large numbers of families who , with private enterprise building again at the rate and real cost of the 1930s , would be both able and willing to accommodate themselves at economic rents or prices . |
| 6 | Last year there had been a barbecue to round off the day , with the whole village joining in the fun , young and old enjoying themselves together . |
| 7 | While being called matapang is taken as a compliment among Tagalog-speaking lowlanders , it describes fierce or dangerous men , ready to fight without regard to personal danger , rather than those willing to risk themselves for others . |
| 8 | Secondly , Fender were prepared to compromise themselves to try to clobber Tokai by setting up Fender Japan ; Rickenbacker 's whole philosophy , on the other hand , is based upon never making guitars anywhere other than under their own roof . |
| 9 | The actual handing over of power in Delhi was accomplished amid scenes of tremendous enthusiasm , of which the British found themselves , to their delight and astonishment , to some extent the objects . |
| 10 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 11 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 12 | And men must be free to create themselves . |
| 13 | They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Teachers should appreciate that the staff can not do their research for them , and should be prepared to help themselves , though they will usually find the staff to be extremely helpful . |
| 15 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 16 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 17 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 18 | Like other gender differences , this too is becoming more blurred as both sexes become more liberated — that is , more free to express themselves as individuals in ways that are right for them . |
| 19 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 20 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the year , the drivers make application for their super-licence , a recently introduced , sensible measure designed to make it more difficult for the totally unqualified to buy themselves drives . |
| 22 | With a rather different question Townsend 's survey team in 1968–69 found around 80 per cent of respondents willing to assign themselves ‘ spontaneously ’ to a social class . |
| 23 | Further , with a little prompting ( i.e. respondents presented with a standard list of classes and asked to place themselves ) the overwhelming majority of respondents were willing to assign themselves to the ‘ middle ’ or ‘ working ’ classes or some sub-division of these . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Palestine became a directly administered British mandate , while the French imposed themselves in Syria and Lebanon , and the Italians in Cyrenaica ( Libya ) . |
| 25 | They 're not afraid to let themselves go . |
| 26 | Perhaps Moira and Martin had almost lost each other because they were afraid to let themselves go . |
| 27 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 28 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 29 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 30 | I suppose nobody is willing to put themselves through reading all the SHITE . |