Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitburn side have surprised themselves with their progress since they mapped out a five-year development plan when Bob Stokes took over as coach three years ago . |
| 2 | However , we do not need to look far to see how the influence and effects of crime have imprinted themselves on our social environment . |
| 3 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 4 | EMF have proved themselves capable of transcending their teenybop image , but have they gained credibility ? |
| 5 | WINDMILL Aviation at Spanhoe Lodge , Northants , have completed another Tiger Moth restoration , to the high standard proprietor Carl Tyers and his team have set themselves . |
| 6 | MY DAUGHTER and her husband have got themselves into a ridiculous situation and , though I could happily bang their heads together , I feel I 've got to help them . |
| 7 | Over the past six weeks , Mujahideen of the minority Tajik community have allied themselves with Tajik and Uzbek militias formerly loyal to the government , and now control most of northern Afghanistan . |
| 8 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 9 | Over the past few weeks , the heirs to Lord Denning 's mantle have proved themselves to be determined defenders of the people and upholders of justice . |
| 10 | Indeed , I believe that those who insist on scaremongering have done themselves and the NHS no good by concentrating on the privatisation scare . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Kaifu and his cabinet have steeled themselves to send four minesweepers , two support vessels and some 500 Japanese servicemen to the Gulf . |
| 12 | The long-standing resistance to urban and industrial encroachment continues , but increasingly in recent years the defenders of the rural environment have found themselves fighting on two fronts . |
| 13 | People who go out of that door have committed themselves to a date . |
| 14 | The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund . |
| 15 | The way in which the Government have sidelined themselves on EMU means uncertainty for business and industry in their planning for the future . |
| 16 | Feminist psychologists working on androgyny have criticized themselves for ignoring the special significance of male-identified items in the BSRI ( e.g. Bem 1979a , b ) . |
| 17 | Many have become ill and destitute , and those who have tried to enter Britain without a voucher have found themselves being shuttlecocked in and out of Britain or kept in prison . |
| 18 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 19 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 20 | Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates in Durham City have found themselves united in opposition to the proposed route for a western bypass . |
| 21 | But now a couple have volunteered themselves for Gwendolen to adopt . |
| 22 | The growth in academic social gerontology has , however , been a much more recent phenomenon and it is only with this development that several important historical issues relating to old age in the present century have established themselves on the agenda for research . |
| 23 | Through reflecting on and discussing their experiences in the classroom , both successful and unsuccessful , teachers involved in LAMP and RAMP have found themselves better equipped to facilitate the mathematical development of their pupils . |
| 24 | Australia 's M6 which runs the 2000 miles from Darwin to Adelaide … the rules are simple they drive from eight in the morning until five at night … the sun racers will make it in four to five days topping speeds of seventy miles an hour … the adventurers … thast includes Solar Flair have given themselves two weeks |
| 25 | Therefore , virtually all methods of land evaluation have limited themselves to the physical factors of climate , relief and soil . |
| 26 | In this instance , a second Bill has had to be presented , and most people in the education system have found themselves in a mess in the intervening three years . |
| 27 | Connections of seven of the 11-strong field have persuaded themselves that their chances merit the late production of a £10,000 entry fee , beliefs that have pumped up the penalty value to over £133,000 . |
| 28 | On several occasions when their views have been canvassed , the judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal have shown themselves capable of contemplating changes that do not necessarily coincide with popular or professional opinion . |
| 29 | Just so might the exhausted arrogance of a dying empire have expressed itself on the lips of a Roman senator waving away the news of a ‘ crackpot messiah ’ among the Jews , and the strange thoughts that occur to people in Jerusalem or Galilee . |
| 30 | Although at least 80 per cent of patients referred to the general hospital in Oxford after self-injury have cut themselves superficially , it seems likely that many more episodes of deliberate self-cutting occur than are identified through general hospital records . |