Example sentences of "[verb] themselves with [art] thought " in BNC.
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1 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
2 | American rivals might console themselves with the thought that this represents a hidden , but substantial , addition to the cost of capital . |
3 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
4 | If so , they can always comfort themselves with the thought that its establishment coincided with the beginnings of imperial decline . |
5 | The effect of this was to make the personnel of the Court of Napoleon III somewhat heterogeneous , for many of the Orléanist nobility were prepared to use the Tuileries , consoling themselves with the thought that the Emperor 's half-brother , the Duke de Morny , was held still to be faithful to Orléanist principles . |