Example sentences of "give themselves a " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUNGSTERS at Amery Hill School , Alton , can give themselves a pat on the back . |
| 2 | What Miandad 's 59 did yesterday was to frustrate England 's struggling bowlers and to set a platform from which Pakistan can give themselves a match-winning lead today . |
| 3 | No I suppose not in a sense , but there again we should be because like you 've just explained , why should they give themselves a |
| 4 | People who can allow themselves to know about their envy at least give themselves a chance of attempting to handle it relatively wisely . |
| 5 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 6 | Mr Major must also be wondering why , if the recession is so bad , so many firms never bother to finish the job and so give themselves a chance of being paid . |
| 7 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 8 | They take five million pounds out of the scheme as a refund they give themselves a five year contribution holiday and not one penny of that improvement goes to the members . |
| 9 | Does n't it occur to you that the rejuvenators can afford to give themselves a discount ? ’ |
| 10 | A few seconds is enough to give themselves a boost ! |
| 11 | Men lift their ponchos over one shoulder to give themselves a free arm . |
| 12 | Some people do not feel ready for this , and need to find voluntary or part-time paid work to give themselves a feeling of worth and to supplement an inadequate pension . |
| 13 | Both the CDU and the SPD sought to give themselves a mass membership , a national organisation and wide popular appeal , though the CDU at first proved far better at fulfilling the last aim . |
| 14 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 15 | Cheshire , who needed a victory to give themselves a fighting chance of winning the North West Group , scored 185 thanks to an knock of 66 from Stockport 's Andy Hall . |
| 16 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday to give themselves a chance of winning the North West group . |
| 17 | Herbert Morrison , the minister in charge , announced it as ‘ the people giving themselves a pat on the back ’ . |
| 18 | When people join a slimming club they are , in effect , giving themselves a boost , a social reward for slimming . |
| 19 | NOTTINGHAM condemned Rosslyn Park to almost certain relegation while giving themselves a glimmer of hope of survival in League One with their first victory of the season , based on three tries by flanker Martin Pepper and 18 points from outside-half Guy Gregory . |
| 20 | It was part of a nationwide celebration of the six million adult students currently giving themselves a second chance . |
| 21 | A 44th minute goalmouth melee in which Colin Allister and Norman McGladdery were both denied was the nearest Bann came to giving themselves a glimmer of hope . |
| 22 | When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause . |
| 23 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 24 | The party boat came to the end of its song , and the party people gave themselves a round of applause . |
| 25 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 26 | The banks have given themselves a get-out clause . |
| 27 | Both have much to play for , for Luton have again given themselves a chance of escaping the drop into the Second Division while Forest are still smarting from their Rumbelows Cup defeat by United at Wembley last Sunday . |
| 28 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 29 | The Bosnian deputies have given themselves a let-out by calling for a referendum on the peace plan on May 15th and 16th . |
| 30 | Given themselves a name as well , have they ? |