Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 2 | But those who choose violence set themselves on the opposing side from democracy . |
| 3 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 4 | The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak . |
| 5 | On the basis of proposals put forward by Kohl the heads of state and government committed themselves in an annexed document to reach unanimous agreement by Dec. 31 , 1993 , on a treaty to establish a Central European Criminal Investigation Office ( " Europol " ) . |
| 6 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 445 ) puts it : ‘ As in 1944–45 , employers and managers in a sense detached themselves from the dangerous appeal to the nation , over the heads of the nine million voters who were also affiliated to the TUC ’ . |
| 7 | The rest of the company ranged themselves around the long , cold room , their backs to the wall , their eyes on the man opposite , their faces utterly inexpressive . |
| 8 | Many of the principles which underlay the provision of rural housing in the nineteenth century reasserted themselves in a new institutional framework . |
| 9 | One of the notable features of the mid-Thatcher period was a revival of the civil liberties movement , as governmental pressures against individual right of expression impressed themselves on the public consciousness . |
| 10 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 11 | Roland had been a warrior at war ; the knights of the Round Table found themselves in every possible , and impossible , situation . |
| 12 | Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province , democracy was n't mentioned . |
| 13 | The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing . |