Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 2 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 3 | From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research . |
| 4 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 5 | They called themselves the Wood-Winters . |
| 6 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 7 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 8 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 9 | They called themselves the Rejects , and they were very picky about social status . |
| 10 | At first they called themselves the ‘ Automobile Mutual Association ’ . |
| 11 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 12 | They felt themselves the most slighted of the folk of Ulthuan . |
| 13 | ‘ They call themselves the Unifiers . |
| 14 | That was actually what he said , and he did then go on to say that you know he is one of a group of people who I think they call themselves the appointments committee and that their job , where appointments are concerned , is crisis management . |
| 15 | They call themselves the cycos — well they admit they 're a little crazy — but then again you have to be to have a go at this . |
| 16 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 17 | It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life . |