Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy . |
| 2 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 3 | Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts ! |
| 4 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 5 | Lunch was at midday as at Compiégne … and after dinner everyone went down to the garden , often entertaining themselves with boating on the lake , where all sorts of little craft , even a Venetian gondola with an authentic Venetian gondolier , was provided for the guests … |
| 6 | They would attend parties or receptions ( often fortifying themselves with a drink or two in advance ) , and would frequently dine together . |
| 7 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 8 | Goma signed up to support Charter 77 , but very few other Romanians , and certainly fewer still of his fellow intellectuals , took the risk of publicly associating themselves with the critics of the fraternal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia . |