Example sentences of "themselves [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages of the conflict the nations of the West concerned themselves little with the war . |
| 2 | among anthropologists and among philosophers but I dare say that most readers of this book would like to situate themselves somewhere on the Epicurean side of the fence ; so would I , but the intellectual difficulties which flow from that position are very great . |
| 3 | ‘ Idolo , my hero , I am 'ere ! ’ yelled a busty blonde through cupped hands , earning herself a wave from Juan and dirty looks from both Sharon and Mrs Juan , who had stationed themselves grimly on the halfway line , surrounded by supporters . |
| 4 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 5 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 6 | These loops have a mind of their own , seldom , if ever , appearing on the side seam under the arm , but rather placing themselves right in the middle of the front of a garment ! |
| 7 | Those that stand still could find themselves right in the discounters ' sights . |
| 8 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , many feminists did throw themselves wholeheartedly into the purity campaigns . |
| 10 | After having established themselves powerfully in the ‘ bush ’ market , DHC decided that a larger machine would also find a market . |
| 11 | Six satin-cloaked figures in white porcelain masks arranged themselves artistically against the façade of a shop selling Murano glass , the blank stares and the perfectly carved mouths giving them a look of unreality . |
| 12 | These decisions are not , of course , subject to any effective process of democratic accountability and , for the reasons already outlined , these citadels of private economic power are themselves effectively beyond the pale of normal party political conflict . |
| 13 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 14 | They can no longer concern themselves only with the technical aspect of class-room steps and poses . |
| 15 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 16 | And in particular the position of Paisley and the DUP was enhanced by having done enough to prove themselves implacably opposed to appeasement of ‘ rebels ’ while distancing themselves sufficiently from the working-class loyalists to avoid the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters . |
| 17 | If you run It backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to form a whole cup on the table . |
| 18 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 19 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 22 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 23 | Messing about in boats is more fun in Venice than anywhere , if rather more precarious , and on such an afternoon as this people are enjoying themselves all over the water . |
| 24 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 25 | The first larvae to hatch have to be fed by their parents , but once they are big enough to forage for food and build walls of mud , the royal couple devote themselves entirely to the production of eggs and the colony is founded . |
| 26 | Successful candidates were those who were good at selling themselves personally to the voters . |
| 27 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 28 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 29 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 30 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |