Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Around 11.30am Cumberland deployed his four marching columns into three lines abreast and the troops moved forward in their battle formation until , 500 yards [ 460 m ] ahead , they found themselves facing the rebel lines , stretching from Culloden park on the rebel left to the walled Culwiniac farm enclosure on their right . |
2 | Now , in the bitter 1980s they found themselves facing the impact of annual cuts in real funding , and pressures to apply new codes of managerial techniques and short-term profit-making out of tune with the traditional practices of British universities . |
3 | And suddenly they found themselves talking the sort of language that all of us can understand , and they got quite excited about this . |
4 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
5 | But if they allow themselves to correct the party programme of action elaborated by the Comintern without asking its opinion , such action is incompatible with the principle of democratic centralism , with iron discipline , and with the Comintern . |
6 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
7 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |