Example sentences of "themselves [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Do they make themselves heard in the crowd as well ? |
| 2 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 3 | The miners and their families were themselves implicated in the creation of their coalfield culture , through the operation of hegemonic processes by which relations of domination and subdomination came to imbue the entire lived experience — the social practices , relationships , expectations , and dominant values . |
| 4 | One 200-strong theatre audience who found themselves trapped in the chaos on Tuesday were given an impromptu hour-long concert by Tom Jones . |
| 5 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 6 | You can use a camera in the classroom to let learners see and hear themselves communicating in the target language . |
| 7 | Proteins are built by joining together long chains of individual units — amino acids — which are either themselves made in the body or are present in the diet . |
| 8 | It 's not the first time punters , who bet £1.6billion a year just on the dogs , have found themselves cornered in the doghouse . |
| 9 | The guilty cats were themselves living in the wild . |
| 10 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 11 | How strange , she thought , that such normal , pleasant people could bring themselves to believe in the existence of God . |
| 12 | Boulders flung against the cliff by the waves are much more likely to knock off projecting corners and become themselves rounded in the process than to dislodge rock masses . |
| 13 | However , they did not themselves participate in the commission of any offence ; nor did they act as ‘ agents provocateurs ’ or incite crime . |
| 14 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 15 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 16 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 17 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |