Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Danish Government was able to distribute 300,000 copies of the Maastricht text through newsagents and libraries , who has decided here , or in Brussels , that the British public should not be allowed to find out for themselves during the election what the small print of the treaty contains ? |
| 2 | Though nocturnal , they will show themselves during the day if kept in a well-planted tank . |
| 3 | They would then have an incentive to seek out wild foods when foraging for themselves during the day . |
| 4 | This chapter considers the relationships between the partners themselves during the course of their business . |
| 5 | Yet if the subjects were required to repeat the alphabet to themselves during the task this introduced a bias in gap detection favouring the right visual field . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , some of my own ideas would have been useless and other ideas would have suggested themselves during the interviews . |
| 7 | They will make no move to attack or talk to the adventurers , but merely interpose themselves between the adventurers and the path to the Castle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 10 | Feverfew , nasturtiums and chamomile will also seed themselves between the cracks but at this point one can be back to the weeding situation and the paving loses its character of precision and smoothness . |
| 11 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 12 | They drive themselves through the water in the same way as their ancestors , by the sinuous motion of the rear half of their bodies and the powerful thrash of their tails . |
| 13 | Infants become water-friendly through songs and exercises ; for example , floating toys encourage the children to stretch and pull themselves through the water . |
| 14 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 15 | Nobody throws themselves through the air without my permission , ’ muttered the Headmaster turning to Endill . |
| 16 | The essential point , if there is to be proper democratic accountability , is that there must be a clearly defined authority whose judgement and power can not ultimately be contradicted other than by the citizens themselves through the ballot box . |
| 17 | CURRY lovers who regularly put themselves through the pain of eating hot , spicy food may be physically addicted to the ‘ high ’ it gives , according to new research . |
| 18 | It was the biggest comprehensive school in the area ( purpose-built , as the Head never tired of saying ) , and every morning two thousand pupils streamed into its gates , navy blue and yellow waves breaking over the grassy slopes , spreading themselves through the corridors , filling up the empty rooms . |
| 19 | People , he argued , evaluate themselves by viewing themselves through the eyes of others . |
| 20 | So , in making their denials , they often make unseemly proclamations about their own heterosexuality , in the worst cases ( only too common ) dis-associating themselves from ‘ radical feminists ’ ( read lesbians ) and presenting themselves as the ones who are the reasonable moderates . |
| 21 | In the 380s and 390s pagan aristocrats such as Q. A. Symmachus , Vettius Agorius Praetextatus , or Nicomachus Flavianus , alienated from the Christian court and from the men newly risen through its patronage into the upper ranks of society , saw themselves as the guardians of ancient Roman values , including Roman religion , literature , and even artistic styles . |
| 22 | Ranchers , who see themselves as the guardians of the west , say that grazing generates economic stability and feeds the nation . |
| 23 | Whatever Beccaria 's personal position , his vision of a social contract set up by people who can at least imagine themselves as the recipients of its punishments is in marked contrast to the later , positivist position that tended to see criminals as different kinds of people altogether . |
| 24 | ‘ Ever since the elections they have been revealing themselves as the neo-Nazis that they really are , ’ he said . |
| 25 | That is , it originally comprised the band of Dionysus-worshippers who , in their ecstatic state , saw themselves as the god 's goatlike attendants , fictitious nature spirits in a fictitious natural state . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | They shared the community 's commitment to education and saw themselves as the vanguard of it . |
| 28 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 29 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 30 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |