Example sentences of "[prep] themselves in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They find it very difficult to cook for themselves , shop for themselves and generally look after themselves in all the ways that we would accept as being quite normal . |
| 2 | family made of themselves in public . |
| 3 | Traders and shopkeepers there were not capitalists , although they accepted that definition of themselves in their defence of free enterprise . |
| 4 | The Japanese are fascinated by foreigners making a spectacle of themselves in this way — the natural heirs to the dying tradition of performing street monkeys . |
| 5 | Humans possess not only this , but also a consciousness of themselves in relation to the world around them . |
| 6 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 7 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 8 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 9 | A number reveal more of themselves in the pages of Who 's Who . |
| 10 | For the most part , however , Elizabethans preferred to be remembered for their ancestry and achievements rather than for their piety , and in order to impress succeeding generations of parishioners , they incorporated into their monuments inscriptions , heraldic devices , and portraits of themselves in their lavish official robes . |
| 11 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 12 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 13 | In other words , Y is expected to pick an intelligent course through a variety of social engagements , to which actors bring something of themselves in exercising their social capacities . |
| 14 | But if this is to occur , the teaching relationship must be sufficiently open for students to invest something of themselves in what it is they say or do . |
| 15 | Irigaray 's analyses of the use of pronouns by hysterics and obsessives ( 1966:29–31 , 1967:55–68 ) reveal that whereas obsessives are unable to say ‘ me ’ because they are caught in a specular image of themselves in which there is no object , only an undifferentiated self ( Irigaray 's ‘ on ’ ) , hysterics are unable to say ‘ I ’ because they are unable to complete the trajectory through the other that would allow them access to full subjectivity . |
| 16 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 17 | There is evidence that the Romans duly made fools of themselves in front of sophisticated Greek audiences . |
| 18 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 19 | Presumably , it was felt that businessmen could take care of themselves in this area , and the fact that such clauses are not in common use in business contracts seems to bear this out . |
| 20 | He says it 's good fun to wander through , feed the ducks and watch people make fools of themselves in the punts . |
| 21 | The allegedly second class Scots gave an undeniably first rate account of themselves in a first half in which the Germans set the mood for the evening with the quality of their possession play . |
| 22 | Results were similar in the analysis according to protocol , with 14% considering themselves in remission in the fluticasone propionate group , compared with 39% in the prednisolone group ( p=0.001 ) . |
| 23 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 24 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 25 | Stuck together for a lifetime in that bed , drinking cups of coffee , looking at people who were not like themselves in that cautious keep-off way . |
| 26 | General Galtieri 's release underlines the fact that the Argentine armed forces may have learned nothing and forgotten nothing , but , by dint of constant pressure on Argentina 's elected leaders , they have moved closer to their goal of rewriting history with themselves in the role of hero . |
| 27 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 28 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 29 | In a similar way , for homosexuals to organise as a group involves their coming to terms with themselves in the context of a society which has certain views as to what is " normal " and proper with respect to sexual behaviour . |
| 30 | These strings may have ends ( the so-called open strings ) or they may be joined up with themselves in closed loops ( closed strings ) ( Fig. 10.1 and Fig. 10.2 ) . |