Example sentences of "themselves in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Towards the end of the third century a new name appeared in Roman records , though the people to whom it was applied had established themselves in the country much earlier . |
| 3 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
| 4 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 5 | It is a sunset on the Atlantic , after a prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled , and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night . |
| 6 | A number reveal more of themselves in the pages of Who 's Who . |
| 7 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 8 | The fact that the gung-ho tabloids have wrapped themselves in the Union Jack does not mean that they are accurately reflecting the public mood . |
| 9 | He talked on , feeling a great relief , thinking , it 's not surprising Catholics are able to preserve their sanity ; they can unburden themselves in the confessional . |
| 10 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 11 | Evans makes clear , in discussing a refutation of the Cartesian view of animal nature by a Jesuit , Père Bougeant ( 1739 ) , that it was the received ecclesiastical view that Satan 's allies , the myriad horde of fallen devils due for torment at the Day of Judgement , occupied themselves in the meantime by taking over the bodies of new-born babies and those of any other creatures . |
| 12 | Managers mainly comfort themselves in the knowledge that physical and financial resources for clinical work are in short supply in the NHS . |
| 13 | A relay of tapes filled themselves in the machines on the table beside them . |
| 14 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 15 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 16 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 17 | They examined themselves in the mirror . |
| 18 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 19 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 20 | They excavate homes for themselves in the skins of animals and burrow long winding tunnels within the thickness of a leaf . |
| 21 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 22 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 23 | It is worth noting that Allen and Overy , the London solicitors acting for the Baron , are beginning to acquire a certain reputation for themselves in the art world . |
| 24 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 25 | While the underclass is composed of both black and white workers , black workers , in Elizabeth Burney 's phrase , act as a barium meal in an X-ray — highlighting the weak points — or , for our purposes , the fate of the most disadvantaged , those most likely to find themselves in the ranks of the underclass . |
| 26 | Instead of storing the values themselves in the hash table , each table entry becomes the head of a linked list . |
| 27 | They have solved something important for themselves in the turn and turn about of a twosome . |
| 28 | He says it 's good fun to wander through , feed the ducks and watch people make fools of themselves in the punts . |
| 29 | If mink escaped they could readily establish themselves in the wild , with serious implications for the indigenous wildlife : particularly at risk would be large colonies of ground-nesting seabirds , such as terns , puffins and black guillemots . |
| 30 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |