Example sentences of "they [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 11.30am Cumberland deployed his four marching columns into three lines abreast and the troops moved forward in their battle formation until , 500 yards [ 460 m ] ahead , they found themselves facing the rebel lines , stretching from Culloden park on the rebel left to the walled Culwiniac farm enclosure on their right . |
| 2 | Now , in the bitter 1980s they found themselves facing the impact of annual cuts in real funding , and pressures to apply new codes of managerial techniques and short-term profit-making out of tune with the traditional practices of British universities . |
| 3 | And suddenly they found themselves talking the sort of language that all of us can understand , and they got quite excited about this . |
| 4 | But if they allow themselves to correct the party programme of action elaborated by the Comintern without asking its opinion , such action is incompatible with the principle of democratic centralism , with iron discipline , and with the Comintern . |
| 5 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 6 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |