Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents will have learned how to observe the child , but they also need to learn how to observe themselves . |
| 2 | By remixing and adding new parts to certain sections they have successfully managed to reinvent themselves . |
| 3 | There are some people who attract fear , who gather things to worry about , to frighten themselves and to avoid behaving differently . |
| 4 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 5 | They do not have to do down rivals in order to benefit themselves . |
| 6 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 7 | The experience of being there was a very profound , private and personal time , each person must feel something to benefit themselves . |
| 8 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 9 | Labour politicians fear estate agents carrying out the valuations will push prices up to benefit themselves . |
| 10 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 11 | Whenever a person is confronted either with death or potential life , they must immerse themselves in a mikva in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 12 | The men amongst the ultra-religious Chasidim immerse themselves in a mikva before the onset of the sabbath in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 13 | As the main churches have become more liberal , Free Presbyterianism emerged to challenge the lack of ‘ real ’ Protestantism and hence offered an implicit challenge to the fraternal organizations to purify themselves by breaking their ties with the main , and now apostate , denominations . |
| 14 | There are no manuals for this struggle , for it can only be done by those who have pure hearts and sharp wits and the wisdom to know themselves . |
| 15 | Too few filmmakers have recognized that the argument for a British cinema could only begin when they showed a readiness to listen to people 's dreams and nightmares , and play them back to audiences in exciting narratives that would enable those watching to know themselves a little better , and to feel a widening sense of possibility in the way they shaped their lives . |
| 16 | Many people emerge from therapy far better adjusted and able to cope with life than others who have not been compelled by illness to work through loss and learn to know themselves . |
| 17 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 18 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 19 | Scientists face a constant struggle to segregate themselves from the inducements offered by governments , pressure groups and publishers , all of which may provide alternative sources of funding and prestige to those of their colleagues . |
| 20 | Throughout all this , the United States of America had chosen to isolate themselves , but shortly before the outbreak of the war , in May and June of 1939 , King George VI and Queen Elizabeth crossed the Atlantic to visit Canada , also visiting and staying with President Roosevelt of U.S.A. , which much enhanced the relationship between Britain and the United States of America . |
| 21 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 22 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 23 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 24 | The ash fall became heavier , piling up around them , so that they had periodically to shake themselves clear of it , to prevent themselves being buried . |
| 25 | Last week the fish began to shake themselves and to breathe rapidly . |
| 26 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 27 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 28 | In the wake of IBM 's fateful decision , the relative handful of customers that had not actively sought all the pricing data available were driven to plug themselves into new information sources . |
| 29 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 30 | Secondly , Fender were prepared to compromise themselves to try to clobber Tokai by setting up Fender Japan ; Rickenbacker 's whole philosophy , on the other hand , is based upon never making guitars anywhere other than under their own roof . |