Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All six departments obtain specific company annual accounts which they analyse themselves for their own particular uses .
2 The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh .
3 Instead of stalks , they have a cluster of curling roots with which they attach themselves to coral or rocks .
4 The inclusion of a counselling element into such groups is based on the understanding of their potential value in facilitating and enabling personal change , by helping group members understand their own thoughts and feelings , and in changing their coping behaviour to the situations in which they find themselves within the group .
5 Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on .
6 Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive .
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