Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments .
2 The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size .
3 Whereas lower-class juvenile delinquents find themselves confronting a legal system which has literally declared war against them , upper-class corporate officials find a legal system which is either at , or on their side ; for the most part it is unwilling and if not , unable even to guarantee compensation for the victims of corporate crime let alone to contain and control the crime itself .
4 Visitors to Hannover soon find themselves crossing a painted red line meandering across pavements and squares .
5 The new republics also foresee themselves playing a key role as trading intermediaries between the new CIS and the West .
6 THE oft fickle world of fashion has a lot to answer for with its shapes and sizes demanding that women change themselves to fit the latest trend or quirk .
7 Perhaps sometimes they deliberately make themselves look a terrible fright to scare him away . )
8 ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . )
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