Example sentences of "themselves [coord] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 2 | There are people who are genuinely trying to make money for themselves and their families at car boot sales , so I think , you know , I do n't , I would n't like to see them stamped on altogether . |
| 3 | Rather , it is an unconscious , gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies , by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict . |
| 4 | Drifts appeared , gathered up against sheer slopes and the larger boulders , and the snow blew across the hillside like smoke , coating themselves and their mounts with white and frosting their eyebrows . |
| 5 | A typical day for Elizabeth and Helen includes the usual range of personal and domestic tasks involved in looking after themselves and their flat with support , together with popular leisure activities such as watching television and listening to music . |
| 6 | On the other hand are those who feel that adult educators should be wary when they are offered the resplendent new garments of ‘ community educators ’ intended to transform their perception of themselves and their role in society , particularly vis-à-vis the working class . |
| 7 | Human beings must everywhere produce and reproduce both themselves and their means of subsistence , and they must also find the means to communicate with one another not just with language but through the coding that is built into the reciprocities that manifest relationship . |