Example sentences of "those who [vb past] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | In central Africa influential movements such as Jehovah 's Witnesses were attractive to those who sought to set themselves apart and to adopt a puritan lifestyle . |
| 2 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 3 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 4 | Maslow in his experiments found that amongst his highest men and women ( those who had fulfilled themselves in life ) there were two distinct groups . |
| 5 | With all due respect to those who intended to avail themselves of the free offer , the first two appointments were not met with sufficient organization to permit cost-effective equipment testing . |
| 6 | Those who voted showed themselves not ready for rearmament but , at the same time , in favour of strengthening the League of Nations . |
| 7 | Those who liked to regard themselves as heroes ( ‘ milites delicati ’ ) must show a change of heart and a will to win before any victory might be theirs . |