Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The money ran out before the scheme 's completion , and the villagers found themselves obliged to borrow the rest . |
| 5 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 6 | These notices brought clients into local CABx while advisers found themselves unprepared for their enquiries . |
| 7 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 8 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 9 | Yet , when faced once again with war between north and south , Christian and Moor , they found themselves unable to relate to their brothers in France or Italy , who in turn regarded them as scandalously Islamicised . |
| 10 | However , local farmers found themselves unable effectively to combat the pollution or even to extract adequate damages from the company . |
| 11 | It was n't just the major record companies that found themselves unable to cope with '89 's burgeoning Rave scene . |
| 12 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 13 | From 1973–5 the Soviet Union sold Peru aircraft , tanks , surface-to-air missiles and artillery on very generous terms and when , in 1978 , the Peruvians found themselves unable to maintain payments for their weapons , the Soviet Union rolled over the debt until 1981–8 , indicating their reluctance to relinquish this sole market . |
| 14 | As the mines became deeper companies found themselves unable to provide the necessary capital for winding and pumping equipment . |
| 15 | Purely East German groupings such as the Alliance " 90 , made up of many of the groups which had sparked initial resistance to the Honecker regime , found themselves unable to compete on equal terms . |
| 16 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 17 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 18 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 19 | On board , though , a party of bridge players in first class found themselves short of a fourth , and Annesley filled the gap . |
| 20 | The men once more jumped down from the wagon and found themselves ankle-deep in mud . |
| 21 | Scientists found themselves able to explain how one event causes another in the physical world without supposing objects in that world to have all the qualities we perceive them as having . |
| 22 | The applied mathematicians found themselves able to claim that ‘ industry ’ also approved of ‘ modelling ’ , numerical methods and so on , as well as being able to derive resources of personnel and money from companies with which to further the promotion of their version of ‘ mathematics ’ . [ … ] |
| 23 | By the summer of 1885 , Anglican bishops , freethinkers and socialists found themselves able to work together in a short-lived coalition against sexual abuse of children . |
| 24 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 25 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 26 | It was early evening by the time the house settled down again , and Theda and Benedict , exhausted , found themselves alone together , one in each leather chair either side of Hector , asleep on a blanket before the fire that Adam Diggory , back from Mountsorrel , had lit in the grate in spite of the warmth of the day . |
| 27 | Carrington and Hannele found themselves alone . |
| 28 | American Express found themselves responsible for hundreds of barking duffel bags . |
| 29 | Consumers who saw their commitments enlarge so dramatically as a result of higher interest rates , who found themselves over-committed , and then found themselves unemployed and even less able to meet those commitments , will not rush out and spend money even if they have more of it . |
| 30 | And what if they found themselves surprised , as I did ? |