Example sentences of "themselves without [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition it is hard for people who are becoming bitter and negative to see what is happening to themselves without incurring further guilt or self-dislike . |
| 2 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 5 | Owls nearly always take prey smaller than themselves without dismembering them . |
| 6 | That in its turn means people feel empowered to take initiatives themselves without needing to be told what to do . |
| 7 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 8 | Weber , however , placed more emphasis than Marx on divisions within the propertyless class , the class who did not own sufficient property to support themselves without working . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They appreciate a chance to indulge themselves without having to talk business . |
| 11 | All people at work are covered by the Order , whether they are employed by others , are in a managerial capacity , or work for themselves without employing others . |
| 12 | After urging measures upon the virtually comatose London committee of the Anti-Slavery Society he concluded urgent action would not follow ‘ unless the friends of the Cause in the Country exerted themselves without waiting for information and instructions from London and that many of our friends in London would be strengthened by a spontaneous movement in the Country ’ . |