Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services . |
| 2 | A more relevant criticism is that manifesto promises may not address themselves to the country 's real problems . |
| 3 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 4 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 5 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
| 6 | The Scots could not rid themselves of the English . |
| 7 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 8 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 9 | ‘ If they 're sensible they do and their daughters will know what it 's all about and wo n't throw themselves at the first lad who looks at them . |
| 10 | The high-cost economies of the EC can not insulate themselves from the world outside — from the more flexible economies of the Pacific Rim and North America . |
| 11 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 12 | Ninety per cent of the places go to package rafting firms which means that independent spirits can not pit themselves against the boiling waters of the Colorado . |
| 13 | High living is become essential to them , and they can not reconcile themselves to the moderate pay of lawful industry . |