Example sentences of "themselves on " in BNC.
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| 1 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 2 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 3 | The funeral itself he remembers only for his mother 's withdrawn , uncommunicative state ; and for the solemnity with which his uncles — always sober and grave — conducted themselves on the day . |
| 4 | Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service . |
| 5 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 6 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 7 | One of the notable features of the mid-Thatcher period was a revival of the civil liberties movement , as governmental pressures against individual right of expression impressed themselves on the public consciousness . |
| 8 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 9 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 10 | Somehow , somewhere , she got the impression that they were congratulating themselves on Martin and Rachel 's failure ; on their very irresponsible approach to Phoebe 's education . |
| 11 | With the details of ohms , amps , radiation dosages , and the speed of a new high-velocity missile fresh in their minds , the military technologists have exhausted their discussions and now find themselves on parade . |
| 12 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 13 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 14 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 15 | It 's all terribly well the BBC congratulating themselves on their magnificent wildlife films but the huge ‘ movie theme park ’ they are planning for Rainham Marshes in Essex should comprehensively destroy yet another Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 16 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 17 | ‘ Muslims are organising themselves on a nationwide scale , ’ Dr Mohammed Ghayas , editor of Muslimedia , a news service of the Islamic movement , said . |
| 18 | The group also said that the police had failed properly to appreciate the seriousness of what was taking place : that despite the racist nature of the attacks , local beat officers had lectured the Ks themselves on their ‘ attitude problem . ’ |
| 19 | For men to model themselves on Ulysses rather than Hercules . |
| 20 | MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match . |
| 21 | As in the 1987 general election , the Conservatives were readier to put themselves on the line — to be made fools of , as might be , by voters and journalists . |
| 22 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
| 23 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 24 | They flattened themselves on the pavement as a bomb came whistling down . |
| 25 | I was taking the piss , suggesting they pour petrol over themselves , set themselves on fire . |
| 26 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 27 | A volley of razor mosquito-bolts impaled themselves on the ground floor . |
| 28 | It can be a time when a sensitive friend can make sure the bereaved person is especially thought of , so that they are not alone if they find it hard to be by themselves on those days . |
| 29 | As the audience saw themselves on screen they began to ‘ perform ’ for the cameras and within minutes the whole audience was cheering , singing and even dancing in the aisles . |
| 30 | Children yearned to be like her and parents , even grandparents , were happy to see their young modelling themselves on a star seemingly unsullied by the darker side of rock and roll . |