Example sentences of "themselves [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group . |
| 2 | They will defend themselves if attacked , and will speak if spoken to or if the adventurers head for the spiral staircase opposite . |
| 3 | The concept of the village is to afford local craftspeople the opportunity to establish viable business for themselves while providing an alternative range of consumer goods which should prove attractive to both locals and visitors to the city . |
| 4 | Make sure they know the most suitable clothes to wear , how to make the best of themselves while taking the opportunity to be seen and heard by a vast number of people . |
| 5 | A CU arises when countries join together to abolish all restrictions on trade between themselves while maintaining a common external tariff on imports into the Union . |
| 6 | Patrons could drink ‘ American Style ’ , with an entire bottle of Bourbon to mark for themselves while nibbling on cinnamon bark , stuffed olives , pickled herring , cloves , or dry salt crackers . |
| 7 | Even Nigel Mansell and Nick Faldo , supreme winners that they were , managed to singe themselves while burning up the home straight . |
| 8 | Perth Sheriff Court was told that yesterday when David Herschell , 48 , of Ancaster Lane , Comrie , admitted committing breaches of the peace on a number of occasions by inducing a total of 13 kilted boys aged between five and 16 to expose themselves while posing for his camera . |
| 9 | She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’ |
| 10 | She spends much of the opera in disguise , first as a ‘ doctor ’ who ‘ revives ’ the Albanians ( who have pretended to kill themselves when rejected ) by means of an enormous magnet ( thanks to Dr Mesmer ) , and then as the notary who is to perform the marriage ceremony . |
| 11 | Much of the debate surrounding the role of the state in financial markets has centred on power of the central monetary authorities over Commercial Banks who frequently overcommit themselves when financing the growth of investment . |
| 12 | Three times in the House of Lords spokesmen contradicted themselves when asked whether that phrase should be applied . |
| 13 | In much the same way , she suggested that in the aftermath of the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , the television companies might care to take a long hard look at themselves when seeking to account for the behaviour of the young fans at the European Cup Final : |
| 14 | However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing . |
| 15 | At this early stage the caterpillars are fairly easy to find because while still quite small they live inside a silk canopy , which they spin around themselves when feeding on the nettle tops . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Windows applications do n't tidy up after themselves when removed , so in this month 's Steps , I 'll be explaining the cleanest way to remove an application from Windows . |
| 17 | And I suggest also that it is a very valuable discipline for the police to have to say to themselves when deciding policy matters , I wonder what they will think about this at the Council House . |
| 18 | Headed by a bishop who , though he is a traditionalist in some theological matters ( the Resurrection for example ) is clearly progressive in pastoral ones , the priests of the diocese see themselves as pushing forward energetically and there is a huge effort being made to keep them doing so . |
| 19 | The intrusive authorial voice exemplified in this passage , and generally typical of the classic novel — the voice that confides , comments , explains and sometimes scolds — the voice to which we rather casually give the name that appears on the title-page ( Henry Fielding , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , or whoever ) is the most obvious sign that these writers saw themselves as engaged in an act of communication with their readers . |
| 20 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 21 | They saw themselves as acting legitimately in the context both of custom and of paternalist legislation of the Tudor and Stuart era which had sought to control the marketing of corn , flour and bread in the interests of the poor consumer . |
| 22 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 23 | Differences between the girls ' and boys ' groups were marked chiefly by the extent to which they represented themselves as involved readers . |
| 24 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 25 | Their approach is not simply regarded by the older men as a reflection of youthful zeal and an extravagant sense of mission , but as a means of adapting to the difficulties , as young men , of presenting themselves as possessed of legal authority ( an interesting practical recognition of the importance of interaction in securing compliance ) . |
| 26 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 27 | Do people who buy privatization stock see themselves as establishing a stake in the economy ? |
| 28 | They saw themselves as wanting to get on with the teaching of their subject . |
| 29 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 30 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |