Example sentences of "they [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 2 | But individualism rests on the assumption that individuals are not like this : it is because they themselves contribute to the system of social life that they are so important in explaining it . |
| 3 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 4 | New facts found by accident may be the starting point for new theories and social observers are certainly not lacking in opportunities for chance stimulation in their ordinary everyday life , since they themselves live among the phenomena which they study . |
| 5 | 3 But it also makes sense to say that the British constitution is what the authorities say it should be because their views on these matters help to police everyday political practice , pulling it into line with the constitutional theory which they themselves advance as the proper way to conduct politics . |
| 6 | But then they do n't even seem to have wondered before what they themselves feel about the matter . |