Example sentences of "[verb] themselves the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 2 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 3 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 4 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 5 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 6 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 7 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 8 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |
| 9 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 10 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 11 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) . |
| 12 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 13 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 14 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 16 | I would tell other girls who suspect they have an exercise problem similar to mine to ask themselves the following questions : Do I take more exercise than is necessary for health and fitness ? |
| 17 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 18 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 19 | Instrumentalists should ask themselves the following : in the absence of law who controls the family ? |