Example sentences of "they [verb] themselves [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 4 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 5 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
| 6 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
| 7 | Again short of water , they found themselves after a brief sandstorm in the middle of a group of Italian vehicles . |
| 8 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 9 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 10 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 11 | They find themselves upon a cliff-top . |
| 12 | When this happens , cells do things they would not otherwise have done , presumably because , after amputation , they find themselves in a changed environment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After that they kept themselves at a safe distance . |
| 15 | Nearby , the trees were distinguishable as oaks , ashes , chestnuts , yews , but gradually they resolved themselves into a universal greenness . |