Example sentences of "themselves with " in BNC.
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| 31 | American rivals might console themselves with the thought that this represents a hidden , but substantial , addition to the cost of capital . |
| 32 | Most of the Moscow think-tanks have now aligned themselves with Mr Yeltsin . |
| 33 | During the second world war Burmese and Indonesian nationalists allied themselves with the Japanese , finding them a useful lever against the colonial power and in some ways preferable to it . |
| 34 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |
| 35 | Most notably , it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills . |
| 36 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 37 | On top of that , they have shackled themselves with some of the most inane and restrictive laws imaginable , laws that leave you wondering what on earth they were thinking about . |
| 38 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 39 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 40 | ‘ Stuffing themselves with unaccustomed goodies , too . ’ |
| 41 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 42 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 43 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 44 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 45 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 46 | Unseated jockeys were scurrying around and fighting madly to reunite themselves with their mounts , but even as they clambered on board there was nowhere to go . |
| 47 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 48 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 49 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 50 | However , many difficulties immediately suggest themselves with this use of hoards . |
| 51 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 52 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 53 | The answer in Geoffrey Cowdrill 's case was the same one that occurs to numerous middle-aged executives who find themselves with a bit of capital and a lack of inspiration : he invested in a franchise . |
| 54 | Ordained priests should also be specially educated to arm themselves with ‘ more than supernatural means ’ against possible temptation . |
| 55 | The Pope 's theory is that priests should be specially educated to arm themselves with ‘ more than supernatural means ’ against possible temptation . |
| 56 | He recommends policyholders familiarise themselves with the conditions of their cover . |
| 57 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 58 | Over the past six weeks , Mujahideen of the minority Tajik community have allied themselves with Tajik and Uzbek militias formerly loyal to the government , and now control most of northern Afghanistan . |
| 59 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 60 | Although we can not be categorical in relation to the cases in this study , other research has indicated that psychiatrists rarely trouble themselves with the social circumstances of individuals referred , and are rather preoccupied with evidence of mental disorder ( Bean , 1980 ) . |