Example sentences of "[prep] themselves a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the results of group marriage was that people shared amongst themselves a large number of spouses . |
| 2 | Local authorities , although not being party to the devolution of the NHS provision , would have to be asked to take upon themselves a serious long-term support role . |
| 3 | The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world . |
| 4 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
| 5 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 6 | This , in their view , has been clear enough : Article 1 of the Rome Treaty states , ‘ By this Treaty the high contracting parties establish among themselves a EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ’ . |
| 7 | Under the terms of the Treaty , the parties ‘ establish among themselves a European Union , hereinafter called ‘ the Union ’ ’ ; . |
| 8 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 9 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 10 | If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises . |
| 11 | In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name . |
| 12 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 13 | It was a shocking sight to see innocent little children chasing a Ball among their hot desires , burning like dangerous flowers in the grass , each couple shameless and oblivious , weaving around themselves a tight cocoon of lust and indifference to others . |