Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told to unlock the premises and his assailants then helped themselves to a large quantity of cigarettes and cash . |
| 2 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 3 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 4 | As he spoke he slipped into the description of what had been achieved , emphasizing that staff , increasingly , described themselves as a single body ( " what we say clearly … " , " what we need to do next … " ) . |
| 5 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 6 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 7 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 8 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 9 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 10 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 11 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 12 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
| 13 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing . |
| 15 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 16 | One was that , arising from the transfer of lands from one allegiance to the other , many found themselves under a new lord ; and some did not like it . |
| 17 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
| 18 | Rural tenants — principally farm workers — meanwhile found themselves in a vicious circle of deprivation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale . |
| 21 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 22 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 23 | The refugee organisations now found themselves in a difficult position . |
| 24 | A FAMILY hooked on the ‘ whodunnit ’ board-game Cluedo found themselves in a real-life murder mystery yesterday … after stumbling across a skeleton . |
| 25 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 26 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
| 27 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 28 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 29 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 30 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |