Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they continuously compared their own ideas with Greek ideas , made propaganda for their own beliefs , absorbing many Greek notions and customs in the process — and ultimately found themselves involved in that general confrontation of Greek and Jewish values which we call Christianity . |
| 2 | By trying to combine a theocratic rule in the old Jewish style with a principality on the Hellenistic model , the Hasmoneans found themselves involved in more than ordinary difficulties and contradictions . |
| 3 | American Express found themselves responsible for hundreds of barking duffel bags . |
| 4 | Over a million people found themselves dependent on supplementary benefit to eke out an inadequate existence as regards food and drink , with inflation taking its toll of what was provided . |
| 5 | The staff denied the charge and declared themselves independent of any political party or movement . |
| 6 | This does not exclude negative judgements on Roman individuals who showed themselves inferior to normal standards of prudence or wisdom : even Claudius Marcellus is blamed for his lack of prudence ( 10.32.7–52 ) . |
| 7 | The children had a bag of homemade bricks , you know , all sawn up different blocks of wood and so they kept themselves amused with that . |
| 8 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 9 | Cherishing the dream of returning to their homelands , the first generation of Muslims held themselves aloof from British politics . |
| 10 | Commanders resented the Central Junta 's emulation of French revolutionary assemblies with missions of representatives to the Ebro front ( August 1808 ) , its interference with promotions , and , in 1809 , its readiness to blame defeats on generals who considered themselves ill-supplied by civilian authorities . |