Example sentences of "themselves with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 2 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 3 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 4 | Those who manage to present themselves with a cool , unemotional middle-class style have a better chance of their messages being responded to . |
| 5 | Gradually , as the war proceeded , both sides equipped themselves with a varied range of missiles , all with conventional high-explosive warheads . |
| 6 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 7 | In so far as they do , they are troubled : they try to find a way for women to be represented in a religion where the Godhead is conceived in male terms , and a way indeed to be able to associate themselves with a male God or Christ . |
| 8 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 9 | Anyone attempting to walk the Penning Way should equip themselves with a new free leaflet from the Countryside Commission . |
| 10 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 11 | But when he works his way round to the Home Office budget , campaigners against the Fazakerley jail could find themselves with a powerful new ally . |
| 12 | Some manufacturers such as MAN and DAF have solved the problem by fitting filters which clean themselves with a small furnace as the vehicle is in operation . |
| 13 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 14 | For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble ? |
| 15 | The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing . |
| 16 | It came , therefore , as no surprise when Dorling Kindersley aligned themselves with a major player such as Microsoft who bought 26% of their equity in March , 1991 . |
| 17 | Joe Reynolds and Amy Winship might just find themselves with a long weekend ! ’ |
| 18 | The Wedding Present had managed themselves with a satisfying degree of success until Hallin 's arrival and it would appear that at first there was little for him to actually do . |
| 19 | All the world knows that the Mohammedans , following the example of their master , Mohammed , are very licentious ; wherefore the men among them do not content themselves with a few wives , but seek every method of gratifying themselves in this particular . |
| 20 | And when it got particularly boring they would amuse themselves with a 15-minute rendition of ‘ Frank Clark knows my father ’ substituting the full back for the equally famous Lloyd George . |
| 21 | They manufacture a polysaccharide ( sugar ) based mucus covering to disguise their otherwise protein based body structure and they also cover themselves with a thin coating of the anemone 's own mucus . |
| 22 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 23 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 24 | English ships could equip themselves with a heavy weight of broadside relatively cheaply , so that they were built simply to carry guns without worrying too much about anything else . |
| 25 | And they learn to care for themselves with a sociable cafe selling orange and biscuits before home-time every Friday . |