Example sentences of "[verb] themselves short " in BNC.
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| 1 | On board , though , a party of bridge players in first class found themselves short of a fourth , and Annesley filled the gap . |
| 2 | Experience shows that people often run themselves short of height on the way right round . |
| 3 | They 're selling themselves short . ’ |
| 4 | These are birds , generally of Scandinavian woodland origin , which have bred in large numbers and then presumably find themselves short of food . |
| 5 | If , for any reason , these other institutions find themselves short of liquidity their first resort will be to the discount market for repayment . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 7 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 8 | Certainly they could easily find themselves short of energy amid plenty . |
| 9 | In return , the Bank has guaranteed always to provide funds to the houses if , either as a result of these purchases or as a result of the rest of the monetary sector demanding repayment , the houses should find themselves short . |