Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 2 | In line with the preference for heuristic pedagogies associated with RBL and a child-centred progressive ideology , all the proposals concerned themselves with information-handling skills of one sort or another . |
| 3 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 4 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 5 | Eugenically-based metaphors lent themselves particularly well to this type of moralizing treatment . |
| 6 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 7 | Part of the critic 's task in the nineteenth century , as now , was to interpret art for the lay public ; but what , artists asked themselves , if we interpreted our own work ? from such a thought sprang statements of artistic aims and manifestos , some using the new device of naming a group with a progressive title , such as futurism . |
| 8 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 9 | In carrying out this duty , local authorities found themselves attempting to assess the numbers and needs of the disabled on a scale never before attempted . |
| 10 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 11 | The Confederation of British Industry after examining the extra work for employers described themselves as ‘ horrified ’ at the thought of LIT ( Layfield 1976 , App 8:249 ) . |
| 12 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 13 | The words ‘ prevent ’ and ‘ independently ’ convey clearly to my mind that the prosecuting authorities regarded themselves as inhibited for all practical purposes from making use of material disclosed in consequence of the court order and that they felt free to pursue their own inquiries and to use material thereby discovered . |
| 14 | The real researchers found themselves as restricted as the employed technicians , and soon left in frustration . |
| 15 | Moreover , these groups found themselves to be in a catch 22 — no win — situation so far as their own political action was concerned . |
| 16 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 17 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 18 | From 1982 onwards , Romania 's Western creditors found themselves faced by a baffling response from Bucharest to their offers of further credit . |
| 19 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 20 | But when Britain went off the Gold Standard in 1931 , the Champagne houses found themselves receiving just two-thirds of the price they had come to expect . |
| 21 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 22 | She bit her lip as her own words flung themselves back in her face . |
| 23 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 24 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 25 | Volkswagen , which is the largest European car producer , has in recent months aligned itself behind the car protectionist lobby because , heavily dependent on high cost German labour , it is aware that it will have difficulties in beating off Japanese cars when they are imported without quotas into Europe . |
| 26 | Three blurred shapes lowered themselves down on to the concrete and sped away . |
| 27 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 28 | Secondly , one would very much doubt whether one would find that all organizations aligned themselves neatly on to national patterns . |
| 29 | Her four loading extensors and four cargo drones stowed themselves , during flight , in the double wall of the hull . |
| 30 | Feeling in Congress was less critical than it had been and Senator William F. Knowland ( Republican , California ) , a lively critic of the administration , supported it over Korean aid while castigating the administration for the serious economic plight in which the Koreans found themselves . |