Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 2 | The New FADS missed the boat , but , well look here , they 've built themselves a new one . |
| 3 | They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI . |
| 4 | Derry 's unfancied squad , written off by a lot of football pundits , are so keen to prove their detractors wrong , that they 've set themselves a demanding series of targets for the remaining four matches . |
| 5 | Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test . |
| 6 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 7 | They had set themselves a pace that could not survive 90 minutes and , sure enough , began to sag . |
| 8 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 9 | They have found themselves the targets of death threats and kidnappings as a result . |
| 10 | Bankers and international business persons are not supposed to be natural campaigners , but they have proved themselves a match for this moment . |
| 11 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |