Example sentences of "themselves [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defending champions Denbigh moved themselves menacingly into second place by crushing Craig-y-Don 9–1 in the biggest win of the week , but Sunny Rhyl lost ground in a shock 7–3 tumble at lowly Min-y-Don Park . |
| 2 | They dragged themselves slowly back to the form-room and sat on their desks , waiting . |
| 3 | Urged on by their riders with short metal-tipped bamboo rods , the elephants lowered themselves slowly to their knees , facing towards the throne , and remained kneeling for a minute or two , their trunks curling and swaying in front of them in time with the cacophonous music . |
| 4 | Her heart sank as she contemplated how , as usual , she would walk up , bleat out ‘ excuse me ’ and then be forced to wait , powerless , while they peeled themselves slowly and insolently away from the door . |
| 5 | In the early stages of the conflict the nations of the West concerned themselves little with the war . |
| 6 | In practice village elders were usually jointly responsible for the payment of the dues of village members as a whole , and as long as the correct amount was forthcoming , and the village itself reasonably peaceful and law-abiding , the domain authorities tended to concern themselves little with how this was achieved . |
| 7 | Perhaps humans may be aware that they enjoy themselves most when they feel that their pleasure is approved of by some overall authority . |
| 8 | Such failures of perception reveal themselves most acrimoniously in the issue of intellectual property rights . |
| 9 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 10 | The difficulties raised by full employment manifested themselves most obviously in accelerating inflation . |
| 11 | Pumfrey noticed that a slight flush came into Pickerage 's face , and he looked down at his hands , clasping and unclasping themselves nervously in his lap . |
| 12 | He told the troops to go and scratch themselves somewhere else . |
| 13 | among anthropologists and among philosophers but I dare say that most readers of this book would like to situate themselves somewhere on the Epicurean side of the fence ; so would I , but the intellectual difficulties which flow from that position are very great . |
| 14 | Additionally , the bibliographic records owned by both Libraries are in themselves commercially valuable . |
| 15 | ‘ Idolo , my hero , I am 'ere ! ’ yelled a busty blonde through cupped hands , earning herself a wave from Juan and dirty looks from both Sharon and Mrs Juan , who had stationed themselves grimly on the halfway line , surrounded by supporters . |
| 16 | Garrett and songwriter Rob Hirst both acquit themselves verbally and we see the horrid side of the Aboriginal lot , but the ultimate drift is that important chances have been missed here . |
| 17 | Kings themselves rarely travelled south of the Loire . |
| 18 | The Khmer Rouge had no mercy for any Vietnamese they took prisoner , and many Vietnamese soldiers preferred to kill themselves rather than be captured . |
| 19 | BOOKMAKERS , whose intelligence service makes MI5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths , for once appear to have led themselves rather than punters up the garden path over the well-being of Travelling Light , the favourite for next Saturday 's Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 20 | Budget-holding is encouraging GPs to perform minor operations themselves rather than put patients on hospital waiting-lists . |
| 21 | They have to rely on doing everything for themselves rather than sharing the tasks . |
| 22 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 23 | From a slightly different perspective , there has been a shift in emphasis among some councils towards seeking to influence the wider environments within which they find themselves rather than concentrating on direct service provision . |
| 24 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 25 | Occasional reports suggest that a single ailing individual can precipitate a mass stranding : whales are often reluctant to leave their comrades particularly if the sick animal is the leader of the group , and they may strand themselves rather than depart . |
| 26 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 27 | Nor did they have sufficient ‘ team spirit ’ , being overly individualistic and concerned with themselves rather than the collective good . |
| 28 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 29 | It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers . |
| 30 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |