Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 2 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 3 | The effects showed themselves in the occupational culture of the force , in senses of threat and danger among members , and in a range of low-key security duties which merged with routine police work . |
| 4 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 5 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 6 | The Mensheviks threw themselves into the working-class trade unions and other organizations which sprang up , seeking the fusion of the Party and the rank-and-file proletariat . |
| 7 | A wasteful volley was shot towards him , but the range was far too long and the balls spent themselves among the thick stalks . |
| 8 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 9 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 10 | On shore , police and customs investigation officers deployed themselves along the Cornish coast between Looe and Polperro . |
| 11 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 12 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |
| 13 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |
| 14 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 15 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 16 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 17 | But , although they defended free trade against Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reformers , most of the leading Liberal politicians and an influential minority of socialists accommodated themselves to the underlying assumptions of the new imperialism . |
| 18 | His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 21 | Why the Romans threw themselves into the difficult business of absorbing the culture of one foreign nation just when they were involved in exhausting wars with another foreign nation , remains one of those puzzles which characterize nations in their most inscrutable and decisive hours . |