Example sentences of "who [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 2 | Again in 1699 , criticism was levied of , ‘ … the Mayor and Constables for not punishing of wicked and lazy persons , both old and young , who absent themselves from the service of God and profane the Sabbath Day ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 4 | Nowadays such national sentiments are also defended by those who place themselves within the traditions of liberalism . |
| 5 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 6 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 7 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 8 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 9 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 10 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 11 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 12 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 13 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 14 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 15 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |
| 16 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 17 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 18 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 19 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 20 | Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime . |
| 21 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 22 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
| 23 | Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ? |
| 24 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 25 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 26 | The people who removed themselves from the register to avoid paying the tax were unlikely to be Conservative voters ( although they were not necessarily pro-Labour either ) . |
| 27 | The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette . |
| 28 | Both , through a happy combination of theory and circumstances , were places in which enormous responsibilities were entrusted to a handful of inexperienced young men , who proved themselves on the job . |
| 29 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 30 | In Romania , ‘ Socialism in One Family ’ meant rule by the Ceauşescus and Petrescus plus lesser client-families who attached themselves to the dynasty . |