Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Many refugees found themselves in the same position .
2 " All communities divide themselves into the few and the many .
3 Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion .
4 As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work .
5 Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore .
6 There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious .
7 And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them :
8 Urquhart held himself with the same appealing forcefulness as when he walked .
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