Example sentences of "[verb] themselves lucky " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 2 | Those retiring during the 1990s can count themselves lucky . |
| 3 | Most parents , meanwhile , will count themselves lucky to get a competent professional for their beloved offspring . |
| 4 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 5 | Most stable-lads would have counted themselves lucky even to get a ride let alone to win a race . |
| 6 | We were preparing television programmes on laboratory work when most teachers counted themselves lucky if there was any chalk available . |
| 7 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 8 | Yet was not this how most of the world lived , and thought themselves lucky to do so ? — once survival was accomplished the struggle for ordinariness began . |
| 9 | Naturally , most of the staff in the camp considered themselves lucky to have been posted here and dreaded the idea of a move , which created the feeling of being on the sidelines . |
| 10 | Royal dock-yard workers considered themselves lucky if their pay was only a year in arrears . |
| 11 | In the harsh climate in which we live it is perhaps too much to hope that editors , no doubt feeling themselves lucky to employed at all , will rise up against their own management to resist this dictate . |