Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 20 minutes Darlington found themselves two down when Heath , returning to the club , put Biggins through again and he shrugged off two challenges before beating the helpless Prudhoe from six yards . |
| 2 | Mowden found themselves 6–3 down at half-time and despite much second half pressure , they could not make the breakthrough and went down 12–3 , a late Ryton try settling the issue . |
| 3 | With four minutes of the first half left , disaster struck for City within the space of two minutes as they suddenly found themselves four one down with two penalties in quick succession . |
| 4 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 5 | All patients gave themselves two or more insulin injections daily . |
| 6 | One author cited his own thesis seven times , out of a total of 10 citations , and two authors cited themselves six times — one of whom provided all of his total citation count . |