Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional clubs formed themselves into limited liability companies not to speculate in the entertainment business but to make legally secure the cost of providing facilities . |
| 2 | Within the Korean community in particular , heavily armed shop-owners organized themselves in defence of their businesses . |
| 3 | Either way the working groups exposed themselves to criticism for failing to produce universal and progressive learning hierarchies . |
| 4 | The site from which the mountains were drawn would be chosen so the different peaks arranged themselves to their best advantage whilst retaining their correct topographical position . |
| 5 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 6 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 7 | Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese . |
| 8 | Indeed , when the German Communists reconstituted themselves as a political party ( the DKP ) in October 1968 , the Bonn government saw no need to ban them , because orthodox Communists did not seem a threat . |
| 9 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 10 | In Bulgaria , some Christians allowed themselves to be manipulated by the State , rather than face severe hardship or persecution . |
| 11 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 12 | She pointed to the frieze under the formidable warrior-king : ‘ General Yorck , General Blücher , General Scharnhorst , principal generals of the War of Liberation in which the German people freed themselves from French occupation in 1813 . |
| 13 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 14 | Nowhere else have the enormous changes which the machine industry has made in our social life registered themselves with such obviousness as in the cities . |
| 15 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 16 | Some lords considered themselves to be above command — and he glared round the company . |
| 17 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 18 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 19 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 20 | The Social Democrats found themselves without influence inside a hard-line Stalinist party . |
| 21 | That Banbridge put themselves within touching distance of their first title since 1988 owes much to their battling qualities . |
| 22 | A further presumption is that the Scots Reformers indulged themselves in communion but twice a year . |
| 23 | In a somewhat similar fashion , Roman emperors promoted themselves to godhood , claiming lineal descent not only from demigods such as Hercules , but from none other than Jupiter himself . |
| 24 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 25 | The communique issued by the participants stated that ‘ surplus countries committed themselves to following policies designed to strengthen domestic demand and to reducing external surpluses ’ and ‘ deficit countries committed themselves to encourage steady , low-inflation growth while reducing their domestic imbalances and external deficits . ’ |
| 26 | Women took this opportunity to broaden their horizons , and many of the women of the English Civil War distinguished themselves by great acts of heroism . |
| 27 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 28 | I had expected that one or two of the fry might tentatively explore this new hiding place ; what in fact happened was that the ENTIRE brood crammed themselves into it within a minute of my putting it in the tank . |
| 29 | In the 1960s , in response to changes in social structure and expectations , and in the context of a party and interest-group world that would not embrace new interests and demands , large numbers of inner-city residents formed themselves into loose groups to press for changes in public policy and in the balance of the public-private provision of the basics for a decent life . |
| 30 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |