Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 2 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 3 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 4 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 5 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 6 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 7 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 8 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 9 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 10 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 11 | Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime . |
| 12 | Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ? |
| 13 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |
| 14 | Among the wildest of the ecstatics who float themselves on the spontaneous , comparable only with the poet , lover or mystic , is the man of reason possessed by a new insight . |
| 15 | team : high performance manager who achieves high work accomplishment through ‘ leading ’ committed people who identify themselves with the organisational aims . |
| 16 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 17 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 18 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 19 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 20 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 21 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 22 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 23 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
| 24 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 25 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 26 | They affiliated themselves to the mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans for their religious authentication , and engaged themselves , like their mendicant counterparts , in active participation of their faith , managing numerous charitable enterprises and conducting their own daily evening devotional services . |
| 27 | Get yourself ready , and we 'll see how they enjoy themselves in the Big House . ’ |
| 28 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 29 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 30 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |