Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 2 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 3 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 4 | On the first day , Chris left out a bowl of fruit and the children — unused to seeing such a wide variety — helped themselves to the lot . |
| 5 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 6 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 7 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 8 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 9 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 10 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 11 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 12 | The Smiths , defying the trend of white electro beat , found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of ‘ pick up your guitar ’ bands . |
| 13 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 15 | ENGLAND manager Geoff Cooke , horrified by violence that marred what should have been a gentle centenary celebration , read the riot act to the players after England 's new kids on the block found themselves on the rack at Leicester . |
| 16 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 17 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 18 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 19 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 20 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 21 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 22 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 23 | And what course of action would the Mozambican journalists who criticize their government 's policies ( Political puzzles ) take if they suddenly found themselves in the hot-seat of a country in chaos ? |
| 24 | David pushed open one of the french windows and they found themselves in the library . |
| 25 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 26 | A sharp shout of command — twelve troopers ranged themselves across the road . |
| 27 | A significant minority of our survey subjects referred themselves to the GP , drugs counsellor , and so on . |
| 28 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 29 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 30 | The Fabians , Sidney and Beatrice Webb in particular , devoted themselves to the analysis of social and economic conditions . |