Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 2 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 3 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 4 | They tried to start a conversation , but it was n't easy to make themselves heard above the music and chatter . |
| 5 | The impediment in their speech will remain and their difficulties to make themselves understood by the man in the street will be with them for ever . |
| 6 | Old Somervillians visiting Oxford are invited to make themselves known to the Librarian , Pauline Adams ( History , 1962 ) who is the Governing Body 's representative on the A. S. M. Committee and would be delighted to meet them . |