Example sentences of "were [verb] themselves [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
2 | Shouts and curses echoed across the vault , and then they were hurling themselves down the steps . |
3 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
4 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
5 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
6 | Off to one side , several men , still wearing their mail hauberks , were warming themselves before the fire . |
7 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
8 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
9 | He urged them to recognize that by not understanding the thought of India they were depriving themselves of the opportunity of serving India . |