Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in the eighteenth century all the European states had shown themselves reluctant to appoint full ambassadors without substantial reasons of expediency or tradition . |
| 2 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 3 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 4 | But it was even more clear that the Public Schools had adapted themselves rapidly and skilfully to the demands for a meritocracy as identified by Michael Young . |
| 5 | Sir Hector explained that the French representatives had found themselves out on a limb when they called for an increase in import charges . |
| 6 | The new , the really new , had to be possible , since all the old wisdoms had proved themselves ineffective . |
| 7 | Mother … high-hab whores whom the Lordly Phantasms had amused themselves with … those were mere spectres now , white ghosts . |
| 8 | ‘ With the unexpected accession of their parents to the throne , ’ said the voice from the television , with that odd blend of reverence and condescension reserved for royalty and its doings , ‘ the little princesses had to reconcile themselves to seeing less and less of their mother and father . |
| 9 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 10 | The dreaming spires had etched themselves deeply on my imagination . |
| 11 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 12 | Here the four powers had carved themselves out oddly shaped zones amongst the rubble and devastation left by the Allied bombing . |
| 13 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 14 | Later , as the Prussians revoked statutes governing the activity of the Jews and laws preventing usury , the Kaszubian farmers began to find themselves heavily in debt . |