Example sentences of "they [vb past] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
2 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
3 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
4 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
5 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
6 | In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale . |
7 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
8 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
9 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
10 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
11 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
12 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
13 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
14 | Emerging at the station in the City ( with fifteen minutes in hand , Helen noted to her relief ) they found themselves in an alien landscape . |
15 | Again short of water , they found themselves after a brief sandstorm in the middle of a group of Italian vehicles . |
16 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
17 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
18 | They affiliated themselves to the mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans for their religious authentication , and engaged themselves , like their mendicant counterparts , in active participation of their faith , managing numerous charitable enterprises and conducting their own daily evening devotional services . |
19 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
20 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
21 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
22 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
23 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
24 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
25 | Here they established themselves in a former clan stronghold , the island castle of Eilean Donan , at the point where Loch Alsh divided into Loch Long and Loch Duich , the latter giving access , via Glen Shiel , Glen Moriston and Loch Ness , to the route to Inverness . |
26 | After that they kept themselves at a safe distance . |
27 | They resigned themselves to the Roman presence in their country , made their peace with the Roman authorities . |
28 | They presented themselves to the Cuban ambassador . |
29 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
30 | Nearby , the trees were distinguishable as oaks , ashes , chestnuts , yews , but gradually they resolved themselves into a universal greenness . |