Example sentences of "[noun pl] give themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
| 2 | Many golfers give themselves no chance of playing well because they ruin the swing with a poor takeaway . |
| 3 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 4 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 5 | Directors gave themselves an average five per cent pay rise in the past year , according to a survey yesterday . |
| 6 | The hijackers gave themselves up after receiving assurances that they could seek asylum elsewhere . |
| 7 | The rebels gave themselves up to loyal officers later that day . |
| 8 | Stress management in this respect is a matter of good management : not least , of managers giving themselves and their staff a clear , forward-looking idea of their role and how well they are fulfilling it . |
| 9 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 10 | It was to be 24 days before the last hard-core protesters gave themselves up . |
| 11 | All patients gave themselves two or more insulin injections daily . |
| 12 | She was a piano teacher ( most piano teachers give themselves the title Madam in South Wales ) , and the food was as tasteless as any I had encountered . |
| 13 | The aim was to get the Davidians to give themselves up . |
| 14 | Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond . |
| 15 | About 1,000 of the PKK forces gave themselves up to Iraqi Kurds who moved them to camps south of the Turkish border . |
| 16 | The attackers gave themselves up and the incident so shocked the student fraternity that further protests were muted for a time . |
| 17 | When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause . |
| 18 | This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the British UN forces in Vitez said the men gave themselves up into their protection after making their way from Travnik , where they had been held . |
| 20 | A priest was then brought in to mediate and the men gave themselves up . |
| 21 | But the siege ended peacefully after two unarmed men gave themselves up . |
| 22 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 23 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 24 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |
| 25 | Britain 's bosses gave themselves pay rises of more than two percent above the national average last year . |