Example sentences of "who [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 2 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 3 | According to Irish religion , Macha ( or Machas ) referred to a compound trinity of goddesses who concerned themselves with childbirth , agriculture and war . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 7 | Otherwise you will wander these tunnels until you die , for none who lose themselves beneath Caer Wydyr ever find their way out again . ’ |
| 8 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 9 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 10 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 11 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 12 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 13 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 14 | Again in 1699 , criticism was levied of , ‘ … the Mayor and Constables for not punishing of wicked and lazy persons , both old and young , who absent themselves from the service of God and profane the Sabbath Day ’ . |
| 15 | It will not be desired to find all people who absent themselves without leave . |
| 16 | He did recall the rule , he cordially disliked women who flung themselves at his feet threatening breach of promise actions , and moreover he did n't like the look of that jumped-up Pickwick there . |
| 17 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |
| 18 | NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction . |
| 19 | Request : The Liberal ex-chief was asked to write a few words for ‘ Backroom Boys ’ , a book about ‘ men who distinguish themselves without excess , folk quite happy to take a pleasingly light and unimposing approach , and yet who nevertheless make a reasonably fair showing throughout life ’ . |
| 20 | It consisted of a team of people who met on a regular basis and who made themselves available to share their expertise with parents . |
| 21 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 22 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 23 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 24 | MOCKING PHRASE used to describe bands who repeat themselves , ie ‘ Honey 's Dead ’ is pretty much ‘ Automatic ’ ( slight return ) ’ . |
| 25 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Welsh ’ is used to describe the ethnic origin of babies of parents who described themselves as either Welsh or English , but their infants as Welsh . |
| 27 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 28 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 29 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 30 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |