Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately owing to errors on maps , Warr 's party found themselves some ten miles from the target and myself only two to three miles away . |
| 2 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 3 | Around 180 per 100,000 Greenland males killed themselves that year . |
| 4 | We killed time by looking at classic cars that had been driven by classic car ‘ lovers ’ as they called themselves all the way from southern Italy . |
| 5 | But Orrell did themselves less than justice and such was their nervous frustration that Hynes , the loose head , and flanker Ashurst were publicly warned by referee Griffith . |