Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny Warlock , Toby Freely and Corbett Farraday grouped themselves around a rickety occasional table , on which was perched one of Mrs Crumwallis 's repulsive collections of cacti . |
| 2 | Glasgow St Enoch Square found themselves among the prizewinners for consistently coming up with good , well qualified leads . |
| 3 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 4 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 5 | It came , therefore , as no surprise when Dorling Kindersley aligned themselves with a major player such as Microsoft who bought 26% of their equity in March , 1991 . |
| 6 | However , Nottingham Forest find themselves at the foot of a Premier League where standards are low , largely due to a paucity of decent managers and where none have Clough 's breadth of knowledge and experience . |
| 7 | The peacekeepers in New York pride themselves on a brand-new 24-hour operations room . |
| 8 | Leigh Miners fancied themselves against the upstarts , but fell to a 35-12 home defeat . |
| 9 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 10 | Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release . |