Example sentences of "[verb] themselves [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 2 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 3 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 4 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 5 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |
| 6 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 7 | When temporary workers responding to the British Labour Force Survey were themselves invited to differentiate between these two groups , two-thirds placed themselves in the first category . |
| 8 | These witches are the ‘ middle class ’ of respectability , always concerned to distance themselves from the first group and ever keen to present the acceptable face of natural religion . |
| 9 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ If they 're sensible they do and their daughters will know what it 's all about and wo n't throw themselves at the first lad who looks at them . |
| 11 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |
| 12 | These divisions establish themselves in the first five years or so of our lives . |