Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swedes helped themselves in 1648 and Josef II held a number of spectacularly philistine art auctions at the end of the 18C . |
| 2 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 3 | The whole of Cope 's foot , after firing three volleys , found themselves within five minutes of the start of the battle fighting hand to hand , bayonet against broadsword , and a mass slaughter , mainly by claymore , followed . |
| 4 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 5 | The number of men who hanged themselves between 1982 and 1991 was 624 , while the number of women who hanged themselves was 73 . |
| 6 | Of the forty eight-people in prisons who killed themselves in 1989 , 40 per cent had a history of previous mental disorder . |
| 7 | He knew they soiled themselves with one another . |
| 8 | When Pauline , Lady Spencer 's maid , came to collect her clothes , Diana and Lord Charles positioned themselves outside one of the side doors . |
| 9 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 10 | I came home , put them on the floor and they virtually sorted themselves into two piles . |
| 11 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 12 | An open balcony and a low sago-thatch balus-trade ran right the way round the single room and at night , when the resilient bamboo-strip flooring became everybody 's mattress , the family groups , in a transparent gesture towards privacy , divided themselves from one another with colourful cotton sarongs suspended on a fragile network of strings . |
| 13 | Over the next few years , they re-established themselves as one of the most skilful and attack-minded teams in Scotland . |