Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of men who hanged themselves between 1982 and 1991 was 624 , while the number of women who hanged themselves was 73 . |
| 2 | In the case of the mid-seventeenth century we find groups of current historians who share social and frequently explicit political assumptions identifying themselves with right and left , and often implicitly acknowledging that their own political agendas dictate not only their naming of the past but their unhappiness with opposing critical orientations . |
| 3 | In no time senators were renaming themselves with longer and longer titles so that their seconds should be bigger than everyone else 's . |
| 4 | Teachers in schools simply have no alternative to making language their principal means of interaction with pupils , they have daily and inevitably to produce , elicit , and evaluate spoken and written text , to concern themselves with literary and language development . |
| 5 | People even act as their own psychologists , splitting themselves into professional and client-subjects to do this . |
| 6 | The great goods depots of London possess an importance superior even to that of the passenger termini themselves and furnish to the keen observer fields of study every whit as interesting as those afforded by the heterogeneous masses of humanity which daily pack themselves into express and local trains . |
| 7 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | In April 1946 Otto Grotewohl , the SPD leader in the eastern zone , complied with the Soviet wish to unite his party with the Communists , who had also re-formed themselves in 1945 and were hoping to widen their appeal . |
| 9 | The young men stripped and painted themselves in black and white imitation of the feather pattern on the predator : bringing the hunting eye of the eagle to the clan . |
| 10 | The Swedes helped themselves in 1648 and Josef II held a number of spectacularly philistine art auctions at the end of the 18C . |
| 11 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 12 | It also advocated that the local authorities should ‘ maintain their presence in higher education ’ , adding that it would only be acceptable for them to do so if they could all ‘ restrain themselves from excessive and unreasonable interference in the running of large , developed polytechnics with the skills and competence to look after themselves ’ . |
| 13 | The clean lines of rectangular-shaped frames lend themselves to elegant and sophisticated designs , so try to bear that in mind when planning a picture such as this . |
| 14 | Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims . |