Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 2 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 3 | Some animals protect themselves against being eaten by containing poisonous or sickening substances . |
| 4 | Some manufacturers had themselves licensed as credit brokers , and in their advertisements offered INTEREST FREE CREDIT to any who purchased their goods — ‘ over a period of 12 months APR 0% ’ . |
| 5 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 6 | In Bulgaria , some Christians allowed themselves to be manipulated by the State , rather than face severe hardship or persecution . |
| 7 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 8 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 9 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 10 | However self-critical you may be — and some executives set themselves standards of achievement which are unrealistically high , rather than too low — there is usually much to be gained from learning the views of others about your capabilities . |
| 11 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 12 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 13 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 14 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 15 | The Revolution also changed the earlier status of the Whigs as a party of opposition and the Tories as the party of government , as some Whigs found themselves increasingly drawn into the new royal administration , and as Tories became more and more alienated from the new regime . |
| 16 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 17 | But some anurans defend themselves in a more active way . |
| 18 | Some lords considered themselves to be above command — and he glared round the company . |
| 19 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 20 | In other words , some women defined themselves out of the labour market because they felt that they were unlikely to get paid work or because they believed that they had no right to paid work . |
| 21 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 22 | Some women feel themselves driven out of the house , unable to tolerate sharing space with a partner so palpably ill-at-ease with her tears . |
| 23 | The report says that the company 's failure is " due quite simply to the overvaluation of the project , which has allowed some vultures to enrich themselves immeasurably at Congo 's expense . " |
| 24 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 25 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 26 | Such studies do themselves , however , suffer from limitations . |
| 27 | However , the charge is often returned by environmentalists who note how much farmers pride themselves on being ‘ stewards ’ of the English countryside for the benefit of future generations and for the nation at large , but then deny the right of anyone else to have a say in how it should be maintained for them . |
| 28 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 29 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 30 | Apart from the formal accomplishments of law , accountancy and financial management , these skills restrict themselves to formalized consumer analysis , market survey technique , matrixes and learning curves . |