Example sentences of "who [verb] themselves [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 2 | Again in 1699 , criticism was levied of , ‘ … the Mayor and Constables for not punishing of wicked and lazy persons , both old and young , who absent themselves from the service of God and profane the Sabbath Day ’ . |
| 3 | Nowadays such national sentiments are also defended by those who place themselves within the traditions of liberalism . |
| 4 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 5 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 6 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 7 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |
| 8 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 9 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
| 10 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 11 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 12 | The people who removed themselves from the register to avoid paying the tax were unlikely to be Conservative voters ( although they were not necessarily pro-Labour either ) . |
| 13 | The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette . |
| 14 | Both , through a happy combination of theory and circumstances , were places in which enormous responsibilities were entrusted to a handful of inexperienced young men , who proved themselves on the job . |
| 15 | In Romania , ‘ Socialism in One Family ’ meant rule by the Ceauşescus and Petrescus plus lesser client-families who attached themselves to the dynasty . |
| 16 | Ranchers , who see themselves as the guardians of the west , say that grazing generates economic stability and feeds the nation . |
| 17 | As Mr Frohnmayer writes : ‘ Few , it seems , are willing to take on those who cloak themselves in the mantle of religion , no matter how far they stray from religious doctrine or behaviour . ’ |
| 18 | The second revolution was accompanied in the borderlands by violence , plundering , exactions and the establishment of a dictatorial regime … in the past , a small group of Tsarist bureaucrats oppressed them ; today , the same group of people or others who cloak themselves in the name of the Bolsheviks perpetuate in the borderlands the same regime . |
| 19 | By this I mean that those who identify themselves with the cause of animal welfare are increasingly those who speak for the commercial animal agriculture community , the bio-medical community , the hunting and trapping communities , and so on . |