Example sentences of "those who [vb past] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 2 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 3 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 4 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 5 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 6 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 7 | Tait and Stewart sought to show not the truth of Christianity , but its compatibility with modern science , and the narrowness of those who contented themselves with what they called ‘ how ’ questions and never with ‘ why ’ . |
| 8 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 9 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 10 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 11 | His limited experience of the nature of modern warfare convinced him that those who sacrificed themselves for their country should not die in vain . |
| 12 | There really is an enormous amount of work and preparation for the Summer Fayre , and on behalf of those who enjoyed themselves , I would like to express our thanks to , the chairman of the day , and to his committee . |
| 13 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 14 | The notion of a barbaric wisdom gained consistency and acceptance among those who considered themselves Greeks . |
| 15 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 16 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 17 | Under proportional representation — the rule of all other EC member states — the British Greens would have been the largest national group in the Strasbourg Green firmament , where the number of those who regarded themselves as in some way Green had risen from 11 to 43 . |
| 18 | One can assume that all the nationalists preferred O'Neill but even eighty-four per cent of those who called themselves unionists were opposed to Paisley . |
| 19 | Even though two parties had emerged , those who called themselves Tories or Whigs were more often guided by the interests of their family or their pocket than by loyalty to political principles . |
| 20 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |