Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parties , in many respects , were no longer taken seriously by the voters ; many more people now disavowed parties altogether and declared themselves to be independents . |
| 2 | As a sign of this substitution the ancient totem meal was revived in the form of communion , in which the company of brothers consumed the flesh and blood of the son — no longer the father — obtained sanctity thereby and identified themselves with him . |
| 3 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 4 | Owing to pressure of work , Brush evidently purchased sixteen body shells from U.E.C. for the larger cars , which they fitted out and trucked themselves at Loughborough . |
| 5 | Its talons whipped out and embedded themselves into the boy 's skull , using the emptied eye sockets as a means of entry and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes against the dimness , saw that the talons were in fact hollow tubes , thin transparent bones . |
| 6 | The Mayor and Corporation made their way back and grouped themselves round the cart , glad that somebody else was making the decisions . |
| 7 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |