Example sentences of "made themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Fullerton 's Protestant gang from Bridgeton wreaked havoc on Catholics , especially if they incautiously made themselves easy targets by wearing a Celtic scarf . |
| 2 | They made themselves good to eat . |
| 3 | All three made themselves available for the club committee . |
| 4 | It consisted of a team of people who met on a regular basis and who made themselves available to share their expertise with parents . |
| 5 | They made themselves ridiculous . |
| 6 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 7 | They made themselves ready . |
| 8 | The troops made themselves ready . |
| 9 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 10 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |