Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 2 | Schools also found themselves expropriated by the ARP or other military or civil defence organisations . |
| 3 | Record manufacturers formerly pleased themselves as to the degree of attenuation or enhancement used and in the early '50s , an amplifier might have several switched replay positions whilst another provided plug-in networks to suit records and cartridges . |
| 4 | Fans often described themselves and their position in terms of their relationships with others . |
| 5 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 6 | The largest party in the League of Free Democrats electoral alliance , the LDP had the day before renamed itself and declared its intention to merge with the West German free democrat FDP , if possible by the end of 1990 . |
| 7 | Woking virtually assured themselves of the Diadora League Premier Division title by winning 3–1 at Harrow Borough . |
| 8 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 9 | Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) . |
| 10 | The Despensers also enriched themselves by harassing the widows and heiresses of great landowners . |
| 11 | Soviet leaders never committed themselves ideologically and politically to Finland in the manner they did in Afghanistan . |
| 12 | Some peasants effectively found themselves forced to become landless agricultural labourers on the estates the Ottomans and mamluks carved out for themselves , or even forced into the cities . |
| 13 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 14 | Both sides also committed themselves to achieving free trade in services and to beginning work on the harmonization of business , competition , securities and investment law . |
| 15 | Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German ( whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves ) . |
| 16 | Palace courtiers often aligned themselves with one or other marriage partner and that would stir up trouble between them . |
| 17 | It is difficult to believe that the submission , valuable for the record and indeed used by Baldwin in his House of Commons speech the following afternoon , would have been sent had Baldwin not satisfied himself the night before what the answer would be . |
| 18 | Horsham soon found themselves a goal behind as Abingdon made a tremendous start ; Town won a corner on the left wing in the second minute and Keith Appleton killed the ball into the area . |
| 19 | Mosley consciously educated himself through the writings of Keynes , Hobson and other Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) theorists to become the most perceptive of all government critics actively opposing the consensus of economic policy-making in the 1920s . |