Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 2 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 3 | Two guards on skis had infiltrated themselves between the high wire and the high wooden fence and covered the growing mass of prisoners with their rifles . |
| 4 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 5 | Thus the Somme offensive dragged on until , with the advent of winter rains in mid-November , when the exhausted , hungry men could no longer drag themselves through the deepening mud , it died away in disappointment and despair . |
| 6 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 7 | Mr Hardcastle : ‘ But they do n't regard themselves as a sectarian group either ? ’ |
| 8 | This latter undertaking was , however , independent of and severable from that of the shareholders and there was no reason why it should not be enforceable by the shareholders among themselves as a personal agreement that in no way fettered TBL in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 9 | The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state . |
| 10 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 11 | The three members of Odd Socks , who enact the tale based on the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 , introduced themselves as a 15-strong cast of Elizabethan actors who have lost 12 members en route to Framlingham . |
| 12 | To rectify this and to make sure the Concert Halls can promote themselves as a fully-fledged venue , the board has decided to embark on the final refurbishment step . |
| 13 | This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit . |
| 14 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 15 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 16 | Indeed , when the German Communists reconstituted themselves as a political party ( the DKP ) in October 1968 , the Bonn government saw no need to ban them , because orthodox Communists did not seem a threat . |
| 17 | They saw themselves as being responsible people who did not go on strike for trivial benefits such as a tea-break but , at the same time , also saw themselves as a little bit downtrodden , almost persecuted . |
| 18 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 19 | As he spoke he slipped into the description of what had been achieved , emphasizing that staff , increasingly , described themselves as a single body ( " what we say clearly … " , " what we need to do next … " ) . |
| 20 | Heaven 17 appropriated the jargon and paraphernalia of industry , presented themselves as a well-heeled corporation , offering ‘ Music Of Quality and Distinction ’ which suavely played pop at its own game . |
| 21 | It 's a free country and everyone has the right to be mind-numbingly stupid if they want , and subsequently I suppose it 's better if they can avoid killing themselves as a direct result . |
| 22 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 23 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 24 | This happens most often when massive shoals of fry from that year 's spawning present themselves as an easy meal to a shoal of bream . |
| 25 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 26 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 27 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 28 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 29 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 30 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |