Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a battle near the town of Hargeisa on Sept. 13 the SNM claimed to have killed at least 150 government soldiers with a loss to themselves of five dead and 20 wounded . |
| 2 | They could hardly have been more different from the swaggering louts of the Hotel Olympik who would chatter among themselves for ten minutes and then saunter towards one as much out of boredom as anything else . |
| 3 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 4 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 5 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | At night , when we slept in taverns , they stayed in the outhouses , fending for themselves like two animals . |