Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 2 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 3 | Seekie refused and , despite earlier declarations to the contrary , asserted that the conflict " must be resolved by Liberians themselves without any interventions from outside " . |
| 4 | 1 the attitudes of the fishermen themselves towards these new craft , |
| 5 | The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff . |
| 6 | Not only were lines built to tap it , not only did almost every station become a distribution centre in all those areas where the fossil fuel was vital for domestic and industrial use , but trains themselves in many countries ran on it . |
| 7 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 8 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |
| 9 | If these are not addressed coherently , along with broad structural issues of funding and organization , it is likely that the hopes of many people with a crucial stake in this area and even the roles of local authorities themselves in this field may well be subject to disappointment and re-evaluation . |
| 10 | to operate among the capacities and struggles which exist outside themselves : while they are crucially important in forming these into a programme they can not create practical policies themselves for these arise from people 's practical negotiation of their immediate environment . |
| 11 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 12 | But it is not easy to differentiate between the views of middle class commentators and those of working class women themselves on this issue . |
| 13 | What amuses me is that many of those who claimed I would hang , died violent deaths themselves in some pot-holed alleyway , bleak battlefield or gory execution yard . |
| 14 | In some instances , patients are able to discontinue these habits themselves without much difficulty later on . |