Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 2 | The Candy Skins could have named themselves after those stirring Scotts The Fire Engines , who pre dated The Wedding Present 's edgy guitars by about six years . |
| 3 | The Candy Skins could have named themselves after those stirring Scotts The Fire Engines , who pre dated The Wedding Present 's edgy guitars by about six years . |
| 4 | keith richardson says that Gloucester made basic errors and could have helped themselves to nineteen points … you ca n't afford to make such errors against a team like Bath and in the end things went badly wrong |
| 5 | After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that . |
| 6 | In the wake of Simeon 's revolt , the adherents of the old Nazarean hierarchy would have found themselves under increasing pressure from three quarters . |
| 7 | One would have thought that if firms of auditors were as worried by the threat of litigation as they sometimes suggest , then they would at least have availed themselves of this elementary safeguard . |
| 8 | They may have allied themselves with some enemy and been forced to leave . |