Example sentences of "themselves [adv] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages of the conflict the nations of the West concerned themselves little with the war . |
| 2 | They can no longer concern themselves only with the technical aspect of class-room steps and poses . |
| 3 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 4 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 5 | They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up . |
| 6 | Even before disaffiliation the Communists had urged all ILP " militants " to " take the lead in calling upon all revolutionary elements to come out of the ILP in a body , hold a separate conference and decide whether and in what way they can link themselves up with the only revolutionary party in Britain today — the Communist Party " . |
| 7 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 8 | It was assumed , incorrectly as we now know , that water undertakers would concern themselves mainly with the technical feasibility of the proposal . |
| 9 | The royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings concern themselves exclusively with the rituals required for a successful passage through the Underworld . |
| 10 | All segments and bristles , they can anchor one end while pushing themselves forward with the other . |
| 11 | The authors of Policing the Crisis , although concerning themselves primarily with the ‘ mugging panic ’ of the 1970s , also focus on what they take to be the changing moral climate in 1960s Britain . |
| 12 | Oh very much so because I mean all through this er through this period the communists are making , they , they want to unite themselves firmly with the peasants |