Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 2 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 3 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 4 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 5 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 6 | For the mass of Muslims this is a non-issue — though I think British and European Muslim communities did themselves a colossal disservice in the beginning by failing to dissociate themselves properly from terrorist acts . |
| 7 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |