Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day . |
| 2 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 3 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 4 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 5 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 6 | It is a method of RE which focuses on pupils ' own capacity to relate to themselves at a deeper level — to their own authentic feelings and insights . |
| 7 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 8 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 9 | Basically these procedures attempt to teach the individual to talk to themselves in a confident and positive manner which anticipates success in the given task . |
| 10 | In another 10 or 12 years , history will show that it is more likely that nation states will look after themselves to a greater extent than hitherto . |
| 11 | He refers to symbols as pointing beyond themselves to the Ultimate while at the same time partaking of the nature of that to which they point . |
| 12 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 13 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 14 | And they learn to care for themselves with a sociable cafe selling orange and biscuits before home-time every Friday . |
| 15 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 16 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 17 | Whereas , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , Ukrainian subjects of the Habsburg Empire were beginning to think of themselves as a distinct ethnic group , Ukrainian subjects of the tsar appeared not to do so . |
| 18 | Left to themselves by the German bourgeoisie — because in German usage ‘ sister ’ was the accepted genteelism for ‘ mistress ’ — the Wordsworths declined into misery and homesickness . |
| 19 | In fact they are folded on themselves in a zig-zag pattern something like Figure 8 , for polyethylene the fold length is usually pretty constant at about 180°Å . |
| 20 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
| 21 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 22 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |