Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 2 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 3 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 4 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 5 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 6 | Suffocated and uninspired by their hometown , Shake shook themselves up , hopped over to London , grabbed themselves a new moniker and , like , got their heads together in a chaotic kinda way . |
| 7 | Dulles replied that a good many countries in the world saw themselves the same way . |
| 8 | Perhaps the disco-dancers of 1986 saw themselves the same way . |
| 9 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 10 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 11 | For the mass of Muslims this is a non-issue — though I think British and European Muslim communities did themselves a colossal disservice in the beginning by failing to dissociate themselves properly from terrorist acts . |
| 12 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 13 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 14 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 15 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |