Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 2 | There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 4 | Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London . |
| 5 | The Labour Party says the Tories have lost the right to call themselves the party of law and order . |
| 6 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 7 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |