Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who just sighed and said that penguins had driven themselves blind , even mad , by watching that dangerous nonsense up there . |
| 2 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 3 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 4 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 5 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 6 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 7 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 8 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 9 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 10 | By Christmas all three main opposition parties had dissolved themselves . |
| 11 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 12 | His revenue was slowly sinking and his subjects had shown themselves resistant to demands for aid . |
| 13 | In Western Europe , old nations had rebuilt themselves , economically and militarily , and were increasingly combining their resources . |
| 14 | Even so , many respondents were surprised at how quickly the different interests of units and districts had manifested themselves : |
| 15 | But it was even more clear that the Public Schools had adapted themselves rapidly and skilfully to the demands for a meritocracy as identified by Michael Young . |
| 16 | As to conflict of interest , the judge held that the defendants had put themselves in a position where their self-interest in obtaining commission on both sales might ( not did ) conflict with their duty to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 18 | Downstairs , when Jessica had stormed out , her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst . |
| 19 | from the mountainous south to the treeless tundra , human communities had established themselves over several millennia , with a way of life which was nomadic or semi-nomadic . |
| 20 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 . |
| 21 | … and Lexandro heard of such incidents of the campaign as the Battle of the Glass Bell Temple , and of the Sixty Suicide Skaters who had swooped on Brothers of the Fourth Company clutching melta-bombs , and how the Fifth and Seventh and Eighth Companies had found themselves confronted , to their astonishment , by Titans … |
| 22 | But , perhaps most important of all , companies had shown themselves unwilling to admit to failure or believe bad news , leading to deeper difficulties . |
| 23 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 24 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 25 | The strap of one of her sandals had worked itself loose . |
| 26 | Wright because the directors had held themselves out as agents of some of the shareholders and thus were capable of being considered as fiduciaries to those shareholders . |
| 27 | But her emotions had burnt themselves out , and all she felt as she picked up the cards and carried them through to the kitchen was a dull emptiness , as if the pain she was n't feeling had left a gap . |
| 28 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 29 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 30 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |