Example sentences of "considered themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commanders resented the Central Junta 's emulation of French revolutionary assemblies with missions of representatives to the Ebro front ( August 1808 ) , its interference with promotions , and , in 1809 , its readiness to blame defeats on generals who considered themselves ill-supplied by civilian authorities . |
| 2 | Soon German chemists were becoming increasingly nationalistic and considered themselves superior to the ‘ arrogant Italians French and English ’ . |
| 3 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 4 | Naturally , most of the staff in the camp considered themselves lucky to have been posted here and dreaded the idea of a move , which created the feeling of being on the sidelines . |
| 5 | Royal dock-yard workers considered themselves lucky if their pay was only a year in arrears . |
| 6 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 7 | Many of the other officers considered themselves good-looking , but this Englishman had an interestingly scarred face and a reluctant but infectious smile . |