Example sentences of "think themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fletcher 's book contained a " devastating description of Russian manners and morals " , but was so antique that its scholarly translators must have thought themselves safe in making it accessible . |
| 2 | There were sketches by members of the Squadron who thought themselves good at acting . |
| 3 | There were many who thought themselves smarter |
| 4 | She 'd encountered any number of stars who thought themselves special simply because of their fame , but this one was clearly the king of them all . |
| 5 | Followers of Leavis thought themselves superior in sensibility to the debased majority who were deemed to have been corrupted by democratic industrial society . |
| 6 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 7 | Yet was not this how most of the world lived , and thought themselves lucky to do so ? — once survival was accomplished the struggle for ordinariness began . |
| 8 | A host of angry letters from women over thirty who thought themselves beautiful had arrived at the office . |
| 9 | They think themselves truculent but they are very drab and abnormal . ’ |
| 10 | The distinction is important since the androids are becoming so lifelike that they differ little from humans , being able to be programmed with memories , emotions and empathy so that some androids even think themselves human . |
| 11 | Fox and North faced a threat which Messrs Kinnock and Ashdown , or Major and Ashdown , should think themselves fortunate they need not worry about this week . |
| 12 | Moreover , though cricket followers in the main rarely attend a county match , they do think themselves knowledgeable about cricket by virtue of what they read . |
| 13 | The practical difference between the two theories of adjudication is therefore this : in a conventionalist regime judges would not think themselves free to change rules adopted pursuant to the reigning legal conventions just because on balance a different rule would be more just or efficient . |