Example sentences of "themselves [adv] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched as the jagged tears in the sky mended , cobbling themselves together in a uniform grey . |
| 2 | Sometimes an older child made a deliberate choice to do so , having already got to know them well , but others could find themselves suddenly in a new home with no say at all . |
| 3 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 4 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 5 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 6 | And also actually getting them there , themselves there in the first place is very difficult . |
| 7 | Along with the canteen , therefore , the parade room is a key location where , at the beginning of the day 's work , individuals start to immerse themselves again in the occupational culture of the station and adjust to the labour process . |
| 8 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |