Example sentences of "themselves an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 2 | But they do themselves an injustice . |
| 3 | They gave themselves an average 1992 rise of 5% , says the IoD , and a lot got even less . |
| 4 | Directors gave themselves an average five per cent pay rise in the past year , according to a survey yesterday . |
| 5 | calm them down ; — prevent them from doing themselves an injury ; — do n't leave them alone ; — if they do n't calm down , call an ambulance or doctor ( dial 999 ) . |
| 6 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 7 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 8 | Thomas Paine was one radical who accepted the inevitability of representative rather than direct democracy , but urged that in order " that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors , prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often " . |
| 9 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |