Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx never interested himself in how individuals arrive at their sense of themselves or in what motivates them to behave well or badly . |
| 2 | As a Venetian Ambassador said in 1497 , " The English are great lovers of themselves and of everything belonging to them " … |
| 3 | This additional property , Minsky believes , could have a functional or evolutionary explanation , of the sort suggested for the property of modularity itself by Simon , in that the ‘ conscious ’ supreme organizing module would ipso facto be in a position to ‘ debug ’ or repair the connections of the lower modules amongst themselves or to itself . |
| 4 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 5 | Meanwhile — and it was a long meanwhile — the British were delighted with themselves and with their statecraft . |
| 6 | ‘ I guess they 're all either uncomfortable with themselves or with me . |
| 7 | We examined the public and private covenants which underwrite this commitment , and the purpose they serve in enabling people to develop both within themselves and in their relationships with others . |
| 8 | Proper structures are desirable in themselves but by themselves they are never a substitute for that vital Christian life which comes from personal commitment to follow Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | And it should give managers an incentive to invest — both in themselves and in their company 's strategy — for the long term . |
| 10 | They have to become used to the parent in themselves and in their partner , as well as to the baby . |
| 11 | In a modern capitalist economy , and its characteristic kind of social order , the cultural institutions of press and publishing , cinema , radio , television and the record industry , are no longer , as in earlier market phases , marginal or minor , but , both in themselves and in their frequent interlock or integration with other productive institutions , are parts of the whole social and economic organization at its most general and pervasive . |
| 12 | But if they are not spotted early in their training , they can be a real menace to themselves and to their instructors . |
| 13 | Since karate competition is all about landing a controlled technique , it follows that shortsighted competitors may pose a danger both to themselves and to their opponents . |
| 14 | Because they are only accountable to themselves and to their shareholders , they would leave themselves exposed and vulnerable to those who do not take kindly to being dictated to by ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 15 | The division managers must find ways to explain the existence of mixed messages to themselves and to their subordinates . |
| 16 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
| 17 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 18 | There is a huge audience for television programmes like that ; people know that something needs to be done , either for themselves or for someone else . |
| 19 | He is emphatic that the works are to speak for themselves and about themselves : ‘ This is a show about painting , not about the meaning of Venetian civilisation ’ , he says . |
| 20 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 21 | Green not only loved painting them but actually loved trees for themselves and for their beauty in the landscape . |
| 22 | Lay officers were more dependent on the rewards of their secular offices to provide for themselves and for their families . |
| 23 | As people increasingly realise that decisions are being made which affect their daily lives , but over which they have little influence , they will demand more say — for themselves and for their elected representatives . |
| 24 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 25 | Greenidge thrills again ; Gower and Ellison demolish Australia in ‘ 85 ; Hadlee 's skill is shown , lest we forget ; Imran , Marshall , Steve Waugh , Marsh and Taylor , Trent Bridge , ‘ 89 , DeFreitas in the NatWest final of 1990 , all manoeuvring their sides to success , fortunately — for themselves and for us — recorded safely for ever more . |
| 26 | In an LEA where schools are encouraged to resolve these matters for themselves and in their own ways , the character of official thinking about classroom practice is not particularly important . |
| 27 | And then the last is if the portions of land rented out by rich peasants of a semi-landlord type exceed in size the land held by themselves and by their hired labour the land rented out shall be requisitioned . |
| 28 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |