Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspapers which confined themselves to demonstrable facts , and left readers to draw their own conclusions , were not sued . |
| 2 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 3 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 4 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 5 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 6 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 7 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 8 | Both were manned by a gentry proud of its local influence , provincial patriots who devoted themselves to improving roads and preserving historical monuments . |
| 9 | How all those immigrants and children of immigrants , that the Statue of Liberty , means a great deal to those Americans who whose parents or who came themselves from another country . |
| 10 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 11 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
| 12 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |
| 13 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 14 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 15 | Of the forty eight-people in prisons who killed themselves in 1989 , 40 per cent had a history of previous mental disorder . |
| 16 | The number of men who hanged themselves between 1982 and 1991 was 624 , while the number of women who hanged themselves was 73 . |
| 17 | who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies . |
| 18 | In fact the indicators used by Edwards were chosen for their capacity to distinguish between individuals who associated themselves to varying degrees with the norms and values of the black community ; of particular importance is the distinction between black and non-black ethnicity . |
| 19 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 20 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 21 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 22 | When broadcasters were promoted they found themselves in administrative posts : talented people were rewarded with jobs which meant that they broadcast no longer . |
| 23 | as if in a corny love story , they found themselves in each other 's arms . |
| 24 | Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state . |
| 25 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 26 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 27 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 28 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 29 | They blamed themselves for this unfortunate marriage . |
| 30 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |