Example sentences of "have [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist psychologists working on androgyny have criticized themselves for ignoring the special significance of male-identified items in the BSRI ( e.g. Bem 1979a , b ) . |
| 2 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 3 | The banks have given themselves a get-out clause . |
| 4 | Several parish and community councils have given themselves the status of a town council , whereupon the chairman of the parish council has become known as the town mayor . |
| 5 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 6 | Recognition of the need to invest in both types of research has been slow to materialise possibly because other pressures tended to shut it out , but also because of the remarkably esoteric image which University research workers have given themselves . |
| 7 | Such a society would be based on two extreme cultures and supported by highly divergent ideologies — the elite society valuing work and , presumably , awarding themselves status and power as compensation for their efforts , and the underclass valuing leisure and , accordingly , not accepting as legitimate the rewards the elite class have given themselves . |
| 8 | Television commentators have given themselves dry throats telling viewers about the imp-like Mota who seems to float effortlessly to the front . |
| 9 | His Dark Elf followers have given themselves over entirely to his worship . |
| 10 | The Bosnian deputies have given themselves a let-out by calling for a referendum on the peace plan on May 15th and 16th . |
| 11 | The very label they have given themselves — ‘ development community ’ — sets them apart from those whose life conditions they purport to ‘ develop ’ . |
| 12 | The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position . |
| 13 | The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund . |
| 14 | North , second in the table and also undefeated , have given themselves a great chance of pulling off a win which will close the gap at the top . |
| 15 | Australia 's M6 which runs the 2000 miles from Darwin to Adelaide … the rules are simple they drive from eight in the morning until five at night … the sun racers will make it in four to five days topping speeds of seventy miles an hour … the adventurers … thast includes Solar Flair have given themselves two weeks |
| 16 | Because of the ever-present restlessness , the attempt by people who are in pain at all times , to overcome the pain or to reach out , to speak up , in demonstrations and protests — even just the manner in which the people have to carry themselves from one day to another . |
| 17 | The Committee who represent or who are affiliated to 15 Catholic Societies , would like names of women who have distinguished themselves in public life or who quietly give great service to their local . |
| 18 | But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . |
| 19 | The mechanical card operated locks have distinguished themselves over the years with proven durability and reliability as well as pure simplicity . |
| 20 | Therefore , virtually all methods of land evaluation have limited themselves to the physical factors of climate , relief and soil . |
| 21 | Ashton 's dancers have to weave themselves into and out of such play without losing the flow of both music and movement . |
| 22 | There are many similarities with beach starting , indeed many people have taught themselves by performing increasingly deeper versions of the beach start , The water start is divided into two parts ; the rig recovery and the start itself . |
| 23 | Nowhere is this as clearly illustrated as in the struggles of black workers and in the way in which white workers have aligned themselves with the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 24 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |
| 25 | TWO EXTREMELY promising young psychics have exposed themselves as conjurors . |
| 26 | The Farm have not only made a record fit only for hurling out onto the M25 , they have exposed themselves as humourless , directionless THICKOS . |
| 27 | And because men have distanced themselves from ‘ the weaker sex ’ over the ages , setting themselves up as superior , it must be unbearably humiliating to need and desire women so much . |
| 28 | You 'll be surprised at how many moppets we have bring themselves up . |
| 29 | Lawbreakers have placed themselves outside of society by committing their offences , but the penal process should ultimately aim at returning them to society as full members . |
| 30 | They have to promote themselves now just as they 've got to get bums on seats as they say . |