Example sentences of "in [v-ing] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will equip those who are interested in developing themselves with the tools to reach greater responsibility and promotion , and of course greater rewards . |
| 2 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 3 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 4 | Now I 've got to sort out all the people who persist in putting themselves into the wrong bedrooms … ’ |
| 5 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |
| 6 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 7 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |