Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 3 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 4 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 5 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 6 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |