Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 2 | The Republican governments of the 1920s allied themselves firmly to big business , and gained political credit from this prosperity . |
| 3 | The Dutch showed themselves remarkably conservative in this respect ; but elsewhere in the west the practice fairly rapidly died out . |
| 4 | The Irish found themselves under almost moment Iain Dowie scored after just nine minutes . |
| 5 | The class disciplines of stations broke down , although in many places the wealthiest took themselves off to other forms of transport . |
| 6 | The thirteen-year-old locked herself in . |
| 7 | The multiculturalist and antiracist initiatives in education that emerged in the 1980s set themselves extraordinarily difficult tasks . |