Example sentences of "themselves by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |
| 2 | Instead they guide themselves by the stars , as has also been verified by experiment . |
| 3 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 4 | They were constantly asking me if there was any news of him and becoming increasingly anxious themselves by the lack of progress . |
| 5 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 6 | Without taking adequate precautions , they too could be in the same situation themselves by the end of the year . |
| 7 | In any event most sellers prefer , as a commercial issue , not to discuss such questions with their buyers , and , instead to protect themselves by the use of appropriate credit vetting procedures , or else , where possible , by requiring payment upon delivery , or even in advance of delivery . |
| 8 | The pies were produced within the public houses themselves by the manager 's wife or catering assistant on the basis of recipes prepared by this department . |
| 9 | One of the more unusual pictures was a superbly painted scene of a nursery interior with two young girls warming themselves by the hearth by the rather underrated Gaston de Latouche . |
| 10 | In any case , they may have desperately wanted a family and have been surprised themselves by the effect which the newcomer has had — and to admit error in this respect may again be difficult . |
| 11 | And without doubt , many birds as well as pigeons , are able to guide themselves by the earth 's magnetism . |
| 12 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |