Example sentences of "themselves an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holidays spent in Swindon or Wales , a time of freedom from the severities of classroom timetables and disciplines , gave opportunities for naturalistic pursuits in a setting more favourable even than the widening circle of his weekend and holiday explorations of London and Surrey commons with Arthur Hardy or his own brothers , themselves an essential escape from domesticity , homework and discipline . |
| 2 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 3 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 4 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 5 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 6 | In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones . |
| 7 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 8 | But they do themselves an injustice . |
| 9 | They gave themselves an average 1992 rise of 5% , says the IoD , and a lot got even less . |
| 10 | Directors gave themselves an average five per cent pay rise in the past year , according to a survey yesterday . |
| 11 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 12 | With trippy guitars working around strange out-of-time sampled rhythms , and the obligatory Hammond organ in the wings , Mother Earth are carving themselves an individual niche on Acid Jazz 's strengthening roster . |
| 13 | Tennis World readers Mr and Mrs Lower , from Chesterfield , came nearest to marking the exact location of the ball in three separate challenges and therefore win for themselves an all expenses trip to the fabulous Carnivals Crystal Palace Hotel in the Bahamas , courtesy of Carnivals and American Airlines . |
| 14 | Townsmen in Cornwall , Carew supposed , ‘ conceive themselves an estranged society from the upland dwellers and carry an emulation against them , as if one member of a body could continue this well without a beholdingness to the rest ’ . |
| 15 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 16 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 17 | Thomas Paine was one radical who accepted the inevitability of representative rather than direct democracy , but urged that in order " that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors , prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often " . |
| 18 | calm them down ; — prevent them from doing themselves an injury ; — do n't leave them alone ; — if they do n't calm down , call an ambulance or doctor ( dial 999 ) . |
| 19 | In the period leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the National Curriculum , such qualitative gains were in themselves an essential resource . |
| 20 | By the time the last participant cruised into Las Palmas the crew of Eevin had earned themselves an affectionate notoriety . |
| 21 | The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae , published in various centres between 1605 and 1610 when he was in the service of the Brunswick court at Wolfenbuttel , are in themselves an astonishing monument of skill and industry . |
| 22 | The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore . |
| 25 | If only they would come an hour earlier , and erm spend erm a pleasant time in their cars erm on the car park having a picnic before they go in , they would save themselves an awful lot of , of , of hassle . |