Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff at the medical centre at Heathrow airport once called in the Customs and Excise after discovering that two men admitted in a critical condition had brought it upon themselves after swallowing a total of forty-eight condoms filled with liquid cannabis . |
| 2 | The Fellowships have a primary end in themselves in providing the route to sustained abstinence from mood-altering substances and behaviours . |
| 3 | The Six each saw benefits to themselves from joining the Common Market and hence signed the treaty of Rome . |
| 4 | But taxpayers can improve the benefit of their subscription at no extra cost to themselves by making a covenant . |
| 5 | It can take months for the violence to subside , they take it out on themselves by punching the walls or scratching their wrists . |
| 6 | Let us hope that these two threatening elements in our society — the schoolgirls and the police — will continue to slog it out between themselves without disturbing the rest of us . |
| 7 | His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’ |