Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] themselves [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 2 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 3 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 4 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 5 | It was a shocking sight to see innocent little children chasing a Ball among their hot desires , burning like dangerous flowers in the grass , each couple shameless and oblivious , weaving around themselves a tight cocoon of lust and indifference to others . |
| 6 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 7 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 8 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 9 | One of the results of group marriage was that people shared amongst themselves a large number of spouses . |
| 10 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 11 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 12 | Tennis World readers Mr and Mrs Lower , from Chesterfield , came nearest to marking the exact location of the ball in three separate challenges and therefore win for themselves an all expenses trip to the fabulous Carnivals Crystal Palace Hotel in the Bahamas , courtesy of Carnivals and American Airlines . |
| 13 | The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world . |
| 14 | Thus far , French princes — with the notable exception of the Norman king-duke — had been wary of claiming for themselves the peace-keeping function within their lands . |
| 15 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 16 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 17 | In the classroom , cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying . |
| 18 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 19 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
| 20 | Local authorities , although not being party to the devolution of the NHS provision , would have to be asked to take upon themselves a serious long-term support role . |
| 21 | In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name . |
| 22 | This , in their view , has been clear enough : Article 1 of the Rome Treaty states , ‘ By this Treaty the high contracting parties establish among themselves a EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ’ . |
| 23 | Under the terms of the Treaty , the parties ‘ establish among themselves a European Union , hereinafter called ‘ the Union ’ ’ ; . |