Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 3 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 4 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 5 | We talk casually of someone drowning in work or drinking themselves to death long before a terminal illness shows itself or their suicidal drive is detected . |
| 6 | Or hiding themselves from me , resorting to a whole range of lies and excuses . |
| 7 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |
| 8 | In some African tribes women gather together , apart from men , laughing and enjoying themselves during their time apart . |
| 9 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 10 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 11 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 12 | Though there have been some disappointments , the Greens in this country and in Europe are very far from extinct , and are consolidating and reforming themselves to be more effective . |
| 13 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
| 14 | Yes , but ticky boxes , and expressing themselves in other |
| 15 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 16 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 17 | So , in making their denials , they often make unseemly proclamations about their own heterosexuality , in the worst cases ( only too common ) dis-associating themselves from ‘ radical feminists ’ ( read lesbians ) and presenting themselves as the ones who are the reasonable moderates . |
| 18 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 19 | ‘ Like the council , ’ said Constance , ‘ benefactors of humanity and kidding themselves about the perfectibility of man — silly bastards . ’ |
| 20 | The Local authority was engaged in setting up an Induction Centre , where newcomers could concentrate on learning the language and accustoming themselves to a new climate and new culture . |
| 21 | At the end of a meeting in Weimar , Germany , on Aug. 29 the German , French and Polish Foreign Ministers issued a joint declaration stressing the importance of their co-operation at an historic point in European development and committing themselves to such trilateral meetings at least once year . |
| 22 | In Modern Masterpiece there is the idea of people being taken over by a force greater than themselves and dancing themselves to death , and that seems to tie in a bit with what is going on |
| 23 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 24 | Styles of dress , hairstyles , musical interests , speech and language use , leisure activities , and values are among the characteristics that teenagers appear to learn , in part , by watching and comparing themselves to others in their group . |
| 25 | Instead their political energy was absorbed in enhancing the privileges of guild membership , seeking exemption from as many of the burdens of the ‘ service city ’ as possible , and distancing themselves from petty traders . |
| 26 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 27 | Retiring partners would still have the difficulty of disposing of their shares on retirement and putting themselves within the scope of retirement relief . |
| 28 | It depends on the simple and indisputable fact that ideas and cultural artefacts travel , hopping from continent to continent and distributing themselves about the world in the wake of migrations and along trade routes . |
| 29 | Most analysts simply assume that it is not , calling to an " infinitive marker " and confining themselves to an enumeration of the types of context in which each form of the infinitive is found ( cf. |
| 30 | young people very commonly are escorted by their mothers and the thing is , the politics of the family and showing themselves to their friends , but more and more we 're dealing with people |