Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing , they imagine themselves set in diametrical opposition to their society where in fact they have unwittingly accepted its crucial structural elements . ’ |
| 2 | It is part of the College 's general policy of encouraging students who might , for whatever reason , consider themselves excluded from Further or Higher Education to make full use of the College 's — and their own resources . |
| 3 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 4 | Since each difference in form must signal a difference in meaning , children must make certain choices among forms when they find themselves faced with two different forms with apparently the same meaning — e.g. , bringed and brought , or cooker and cook . |
| 5 | As steam declines in South Africa they find themselves transferred around various depots and are currently working out of Kimberley . |
| 6 | The victims are not just big banks , but ordinary people who have to pay bills twice over — or find themselves landed with impressive but worthless slips of paper . |
| 7 | Snatched from the security and love of their sisters in the joint family , Bengali women in Britain often find themselves forced into total emotional dependence on their husbands . |
| 8 | ( c ) Adjectives which , because of their lexical meaning , may only qualify sense find themselves restricted to prenominal position . |
| 9 | The opera 's subtitle is ‘ The School for Loves ’ ; and during the course of this dangerous experiment in human emotions , in which the two sisters unwittingly find themselves seduced by each other 's lover , all four central protagonists learn something about themselves . |
| 10 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 11 | Young single parents who have themselves learned by bitter experience what a limitation young parenthood can often be should be used imaginatively in schools to get this message across . |
| 12 | Moreover , social relations of this new type have themselves passed through significant stages . |