Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] themselves in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at this early break in the morning , several husbands had lost bets and were to be glimpsed shouting at themselves in silence in corners . |
| 2 | Critics of the concept suggest that Yuppies are the figment of the imagination of media , agency and marketing people , looking at themselves in a mirror in their expensive homes in the capital city . |
| 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 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 5 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 6 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 7 | In contrast , the contributors to this book , whilst differing between themselves in many respects , share both a critical refutation of the manner in which the inner city has commonly been taken as unproblematic and a belief in the need to use the vocabulary of popular debates to propose alternative conceptualisations of urban crisis and to subject current policy to critical examination . |
| 8 | Boro must find self-motivation at unfashionable Southend after playing above themselves in the Rumbelows Cup semi-final at Manchester United in midweek . |
| 9 | From the moment children become active they seem to be falling over themselves in the pursuit of adventure . |
| 10 | From the moment children become active they seem to be falling over themselves in the pursuit of adventure . |
| 11 | Unionist politicians are always falling over themselves in their rush to praise the Zionist state of Israel . |
| 12 | For a while , the seif-centred members of celebrity circles were falling over themselves in their eagerness to jump on the bandwagon . |
| 13 | The maids are lovely to behold , combing their long tresses and gazing at themselves in hand-mirrors , while singing with exquisite sweetness on a rock near the water 's edge . |
| 14 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
| 15 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |