Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 2 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 3 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 4 | It follows from that provision , and in particular from the passage which I have emphasised , that it is necessary to reject the United Kingdom 's argument that no infringement of article 52 has taken place because the nationality requirements do not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom and operating fishing vessels there , but only from doing so under the British flag : British citizens are not subject to that restriction . |
| 5 | But if the purpose is no more precisely formulated than that , the playback session may never get beyond teachers ' purely subjective reactions to seeing themselves on the screen . |
| 6 | The reserve , the indifference and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others . |
| 7 | We do know that responses by women members of the Legitimation League were cautious and ambiguous , highlighting the tensions felt by feminists in committing themselves to a libertarian politics . |
| 8 | BANKS seem to have become experts at shooting themselves in the foot . |
| 9 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |