Example sentences of "women [pron] [vb past] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of men who hanged themselves between 1982 and 1991 was 624 , while the number of women who hanged themselves was 73 . |
| 2 | He did recall the rule , he cordially disliked women who flung themselves at his feet threatening breach of promise actions , and moreover he did n't like the look of that jumped-up Pickwick there . |
| 3 | ‘ I am particularly pleased at the number of able women who offered themselves for appointment , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 5 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 6 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 7 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 8 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 9 | Had n't he already said that he disliked women who threw themselves at him ? |
| 10 | In 1864 the Lancet warned its medical readers about the dire sexual dangers that awaited women who allowed themselves to be hypnotized : |
| 11 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |
| 12 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 13 | In particular , women who found themselves without a source of male economic support-widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers — tended to end up drawing poor relief . |