Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russians in Central Asia , imperialists in India , South-East Asia , and Africa , colonizers in Australasia , and the commercial intruders in China and Japan all expressed themselves with striking forcefulness through this one architectural type . |
| 2 | The leading ‘ rank-and-file ’ activists of the 1960s and 1970s generally regarded themselves as anti-Stalinist leftists . |
| 3 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 4 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 5 | Although the band could now operate without digging into the personal pocket of Joe Moss ( previously he had financed all the band 's expenses ) , Marr , Morrissey , Rourke and Joyce still found themselves with little personal money . |
| 6 | The minting of coins , possibly simultaneously , in East Anglia in the name of a king , Eadwald , indicates that the East Angles also emancipated themselves from Mercian control . |
| 7 | The professional political apparatchiks of the West too often found themselves among kindred spirits in the East . |
| 8 | I noticed that children often marked themselves like this in play . |
| 9 | The cadets , who had fasted for five days , now gorged themselves on toxic fungi from a death world specially grown in the hydro-culture vats , slurped up glutinous soup made from decomposing venom-gland fish , devoured foul cadavers heaped with stenchful excremental sauce , and chewed their way through discarded parchment and leather , while officers , Battle Brothers , and older cadets dined more modestly on fresh fruit and vegetables . |
| 10 | Camilla and Charles then distanced themselves from each other as part of a ‘ damage-limitation exercise ’ agreed in a series of Palace-negotiated pacts . |
| 11 | I came home , put them on the floor and they virtually sorted themselves into two piles . |