Example sentences of "they [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 2 | as if in a corny love story , they found themselves in each other 's arms . |
| 3 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 4 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 5 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 6 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 7 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 8 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 9 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 10 | There only 3 places off the bottom and the drop into the non-league world and there was just one minute to go when they saved themselves in this match . |
| 11 | Can they open themselves to this source of energy , this fresh spring of water , this new wine , this ‘ women spirit rising ’ , and change and be changed in the process ? |
| 12 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 13 | When the Moors saw this they were greatly amazed ; and they harnessed themselves in Great haste , and came out of their tents . |
| 14 | Other regions of the kingdom , if they see themselves in similar plight , may take heart from a Northern intention and expression of spirit . |