Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 2 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 3 | On the first day , Chris left out a bowl of fruit and the children — unused to seeing such a wide variety — helped themselves to the lot . |
| 4 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 5 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 6 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 7 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 8 | The Smiths , defying the trend of white electro beat , found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of ‘ pick up your guitar ’ bands . |
| 9 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |
| 10 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 11 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 14 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 15 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 16 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
| 17 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 18 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 19 | ENGLAND manager Geoff Cooke , horrified by violence that marred what should have been a gentle centenary celebration , read the riot act to the players after England 's new kids on the block found themselves on the rack at Leicester . |
| 20 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 21 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 22 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 23 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 25 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 26 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 27 | At the same time Domark , owners of a plethora of Bond licences , found themselves with the rights to Live and Let Die ; a film with a particularly violent speedboat sequence . |
| 28 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 29 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 30 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |