Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while we 're on the subject of missing musical objects , SCORPIO RISING have suddenly found themselves minus a bass player and interested parties , willing to relocate to Liverpool , should contact Marc on 051–608 2084 . |
| 2 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 3 | He spent his youth in Provence where three generations of his family had already devoted themselves to the arcane mysteries of perfume business . |
| 4 | Of the three component political groups which had founded the Labour Representation Committee thirty years before , the Marxists had mostly isolated themselves within the Communist Party , the ILP was ready to depart and the Fabian Society was moribund . |
| 5 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |
| 6 | No country 's parties have yet fully adjusted themselves to the new pattern — of the big countries , the United States and Germany are probably closest — but Greece is further away than most of the rest of the western world . |
| 7 | However , radicalism makes outright cancellation a possibility — for if the station stops providing jobs ( or , rather , provides jobs in places that have not yet welded themselves into a firm lobbying coalition ) what is it good for ? |
| 8 | Now has anybody actually got themselves in a total mess ? |