Example sentences of "themselves [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did they have sufficient ‘ team spirit ’ , being overly individualistic and concerned with themselves rather than the collective good . |
| 2 | The Tyrone family fight themselves rather than the world but this is to destroy them too . |
| 3 | The inconclusive nature of the empirical tests may suggest something about the validity of the tests themselves rather than the significance or otherwise of dividends . |
| 4 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 5 | They do not only make their way through stuffed and clamoring doorways , but emerge from the unseen bowels of the pub , as though they have held themselves privately for days in the cellar , waiting with bated breath , presenting themselves only as the hour grows ripe . |
| 6 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 7 | By the end of the week the company had played themselves in and the two opening productions were soundly established . |
| 8 | The attackers gave themselves up and the incident so shocked the student fraternity that further protests were muted for a time . |
| 9 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 10 | Europe may have turned its back , but the Czechs also sold themselves out as the poles did not . |
| 11 | There was , however , another crucial difference between Darwin 's position and that of his contemporaries : he believed that , when members of a species were transported to a new location , they might sometimes establish themselves even if the conditions were not identical to those of the homeland , in which case the isolated population would adapt to the new environment and eventually be transformed into a distinct species . |
| 12 | ‘ I think your friend Billy and his fellow commandos were a bit peeved to find themselves here after the horse had bolted , so to speak . ’ |
| 13 | The All Blacks assembled yesterday for a rugged training session but have been unable to prepare themselves fully as the Lions have delayed selection for another 24-hours due to ever increasing injury problems . |