Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , Italian midfields have been able to look after themselves over the years . |
| 2 | And the men of Northern Nigeria , conscious of themselves as the most refined products of a now self-consciously imperial civilization , were distinctly more inclined than their predecessors in the Punjab to ruminate on what they regarded , rather surprisingly in the circumstances , as the subtleties of their craft . |
| 3 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 4 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |
| 5 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 6 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 7 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 8 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 9 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 10 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A number reveal more of themselves in the pages of Who 's Who . |
| 15 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | He says it 's good fun to wander through , feed the ducks and watch people make fools of themselves in the punts . |
| 19 | In TRACE II units at the same level fight amongst themselves for the available supporting evidence . |
| 20 | And the danger presumably is that the surpluses we were having our discussion and debate about earlier on , those surpluses that and I do understand why you feel the pensioners should benefit from their surplus , but it the reality is that the employers and possibly the pensioners are currently arguing amongst themselves for the benefit of those surpluses , but in fact one of the significant contributors is often the deferred pensioners |
| 21 | Thus historians need to create an awareness amongst themselves of the shape and the nature of the information structures which will be used in the future for the history of the present . |
| 22 | Firstly , the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used . |
| 23 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Boro must find self-motivation at unfashionable Southend after playing above themselves in the Rumbelows Cup semi-final at Manchester United in midweek . |
| 29 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
| 30 | For some birth parents this would mean periodic up-dating of information from themselves to the adoptive family and from the latter to the birth parents directly or through the placement agency . |