Example sentences of "[prep] themselves the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , rather than having the guests whispering conspiratorially amongst themselves the unmentionable secret that this is a second marriage , some speakers prefer a more direct and honest approach . |
| 2 | Sincere though the ideals of Lenin and his allies may have been , Marxism served as a mystifying ideology , masking even from themselves the real ambitions of the intelligentsia . |
| 3 | She went up to the dormitory , where she found her school friends , anxious and exulting over her delay , grieved and relieved that her sortie had escaped detection ; they gathered round her , perched on the bed , drawing cosily round themselves the striped dusty coarse hooped curtains on their brass poles , and they listened to her story . |
| 4 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 5 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 6 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 7 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 8 | In the classroom , cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying . |
| 9 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 10 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 11 | Thus far , French princes — with the notable exception of the Norman king-duke — had been wary of claiming for themselves the peace-keeping function within their lands . |
| 12 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |