Example sentences of "[verb] themselves in the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 2 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 3 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 4 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 5 | These were articulate people , perhaps better able to deal with the press and media than some other families who have found themselves in the same position . |
| 6 | On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 9 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
| 10 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 11 | However , those in the manufacturing sector and , more particularly , those in more highly skilled positions , are more likely to place themselves in the latter category . |