Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 2 | On April 14 , the Spanish EFE news agency quoted a statement signed by four division generals , 19 colonels and one air force brigadier , describing themselves as the Guararapes group , who warned that the current situation was " identical " with that in Venezuela , subject of an attempted coup in February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and Peru , where President Fujimori seized power with army support on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 3 | [ PAMELA and BELVILLE dress themselves for the Masquerade ; PAMELA as a Puritan girl and BELVILLE as a Spanish nobleman . |
| 4 | Woking virtually assured themselves of the Diadora League Premier Division title by winning 3–1 at Harrow Borough . |
| 5 | Their opponents , lacking the shrewd tactical direction and sense of purpose that Chapman provided , were slow to arm themselves against the Cobblers ' swift , sudden onslaughts . |
| 6 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic followed his foreign minister to refuse to take part in any further big peace conferences and instead urged the international community to let Muslims defend themselves against the Serbs . |
| 7 | To be fair the answer was in the manual but this only highlights the fact that the various packages do n't automatically integrate themselves with the InteMate manager . |
| 8 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 9 | LOYALIST URBAN VIGILANTEES BEGIN TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO THE ULSTER DEFENCE ASSOCIATION . |
| 10 | Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records . |
| 11 | If anyone did maybe they threw themselves into the Aire after leaving the ground ; - ) |
| 12 | Ten years ago they formed themselves into the Hargeisa Group to lobby the government for a better deal for the north . |
| 13 | A volatile , erratic but undeniably charismatic figure , with a loyal following among the Syrian troops enriching themselves in the Bekaa Valley , among the Palestinian terrorists financed by Lebanese drug trafficking , and among Arabs living in Detroit and Los Angeles who distributed the product , Rifat Assad was also too valuable an asset to fear official displeasure from any quarter , Syrian , French or American . |
| 14 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 15 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
| 16 | The Castledawson side , hitherto famed for being the first winners of the Irish Cup , are now making a modern day name for themselves in the B Division . |
| 17 | Several advanced their claims and two , the Jamaican left-hander Jimmy Adams and the Leeward Islands fast bowler , Kenneth Benjamin , earned places for themselves in the West Indies team for the solitary Test against South Africa that ended the season . |
| 18 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 19 | The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures . |
| 20 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 21 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | It follows from that provision , and in particular from the passage which I have emphasised , that it is necessary to reject the United Kingdom 's argument that no infringement of article 52 has taken place because the nationality requirements do not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom and operating fishing vessels there , but only from doing so under the British flag : British citizens are not subject to that restriction . |
| 23 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 24 | prohibits the application of nationality requirements even where the persons concerned do not intend to establish themselves in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | When Richard Branson took over negotiations from Fields in March , Wilson and a team of Boeing executives and lawyers flew to Britain , installed themselves in the Carlton Towers hotel in Knightsbridge and prepared to make a killing . |
| 26 | European countries refused to include themselves in the Rio summit agreement requiring developing countries to introduce sustainable forest management by 2000 . |
| 27 | Boro must find self-motivation at unfashionable Southend after playing above themselves in the Rumbelows Cup semi-final at Manchester United in midweek . |
| 28 | Although the constitutional law granted cultural minority rights , the Albanian and Hungarian minorities , concentrated in Kosovo and Vojvodina respectively , distanced themselves from the FRY , criticizing the constitution 's omission of collective political rights . |
| 29 | In other UDC areas local authorities and UDC Boards are working together to ensure that there is some balance to redevelopment , and officials are making great efforts to reassure residents and distance themselves from the LDDC experience . |
| 30 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |