Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 3 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 4 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 5 | For some birth parents this would mean periodic up-dating of information from themselves to the adoptive family and from the latter to the birth parents directly or through the placement agency . |
| 6 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | American oil companies ( fearful of the knock-on effects to themselves in the Middle East if Iranian radicals were seen to succeed ) proved more enthusiastic allies than the State Department . |
| 10 | The British raiders had the race to themselves from the final turn as Jodami overhauled his chief rival in an exciting duel that was only decided on the line . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But all the signs are that if Britain still withholds its endorsement , the other 11 will conclude an agreement among themselves outside the formal EC framework . |
| 13 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 14 | In comprehension , children might already be aware that different speakers used different terms for instances of the same category , bird and oiseau say , but they might still be unsure for themselves of the specific conditions under which a speaker used one or other term . |
| 15 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |