Example sentences of "themselves [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war in Poland raged tragically , but even the French had pulled themselves together sufficiently to coin triumphalist slogans about their might and will . |
| 2 | No move was ever made to introduce flexible or partial retirement which would allow older people to reduce the amount of work they did and to choose for themselves finally when to retire . |
| 3 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 4 | They 're also supremely naive if they do n't think at some point in the future that MCA will hike out a similar compilation to the one Phonogram just have … that 's always assuming that they sort themselves out enough to have the required amount of hits . |
| 5 | Local Management of Schools was introduced to allow schools to decide for themselves how best to spend money to meet their pupils ' needs . |