Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 2 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 3 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 4 | The lawyers acting for the parents tried to present themselves as friends , representatives who would speak on behalf of the parents . |
| 5 | In Chapter 5 we saw how natural philosophers , such as Boyle , tried to defend themselves against charges of encouraging materialistic atheism by suggesting that , since the natural world is God 's creation , the study of it leads towards , not away from , things spiritual . |
| 6 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |
| 7 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 8 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 9 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 10 | As a result , many undoubtedly experienced deep feelings of isolation and alienation , and came to see themselves as prophets in the wilderness or pilgrims journeying through hostile territory . |
| 11 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 12 | It was only with enormous reluctance and great misgivings that even those most acutely aware of the evils of Nazism came to persuade themselves of what we , as beneficiaries of the Second World War , too often take for granted — that the catastrophe of another war was the lesser of two evils . |
| 13 | It is true that the Anglo-Norman aristocracy spoke French among themselves and wrote to each other in that language , long after they came to regard themselves as Englishmen . |
| 14 | Yeah , people could just switch off and then it Apple Macintosh erm I think with the Gillette decision was part of the Gillette seemed to reposition themselves in advertising |
| 15 | They seemed to range themselves behind her mother somehow , their portraits , hung either side of the huge stone fireplace , seemed to glow with energy and disapproval . |
| 16 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 17 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 18 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 19 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |
| 20 | As a result , an agreement was signed that about 50 rebel leaders could return to Nicaragua on condition that , like the returning contras , they renounced the armed struggle and illegal activities and agreed to incorporate themselves into the political system . |
| 21 | Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena . |
| 22 | At the same time , different peoples , sometimes referred to as barbarians , began to establish themselves in different parts of Europe and evolve their own culture , sometimes Christian , sometimes not , but the former was not necessarily more civilised than the latter . |
| 23 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 24 | The Ancient Britons surged forward and began forming themselves into lines , Elinor in front as Boudicca in a pretend chariot and Otley as Venutius , the belligerent Brit , consort of our Brigantian Queen Cartimandua . |
| 25 | After the coup , the former pillars of the state rushed to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 26 | In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast . |
| 27 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 28 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 29 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 30 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |