Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 2 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 3 | From such relatively peaceful origins they came , by the end of the century , to undertake external war for their employers , pitting themselves against other such groups ( the Companies or routiers ) , in which might be found not only Italians and Germans , but Flemings , Spaniards , Frenchmen and , at times , a few Englishmen . |
| 4 | A primary group , with a leader , but with little other ‘ organization ’ in it , can therefore be said to be ‘ a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego ’ . |
| 5 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 6 | He knew they soiled themselves with one another . |
| 7 | A primary group of this kind is a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego . |
| 8 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 9 | An open balcony and a low sago-thatch balus-trade ran right the way round the single room and at night , when the resilient bamboo-strip flooring became everybody 's mattress , the family groups , in a transparent gesture towards privacy , divided themselves from one another with colourful cotton sarongs suspended on a fragile network of strings . |
| 10 | In the shade beneath the trees he saw that the " massacred " Annamite coolies were beginning to come to life ; they untangled themselves from one another with painful slowness and staggered to their feet . |
| 11 | If Mrs Gould could bridge the gap with a foot in both camps , the two men must inevitably have begun to polarise themselves from one another . |
| 12 | If he and his cohorts at the FA want their ball back , they must crack down harder themselves on all that is bad in football . |