Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | All segments and bristles , they can anchor one end while pushing themselves forward with the other . |
| 2 | The authors of Policing the Crisis , although concerning themselves primarily with the ‘ mugging panic ’ of the 1970s , also focus on what they take to be the changing moral climate in 1960s Britain . |
| 3 | They usually ignored colds and flu , dragging themselves around with fevers and allied aches . |
| 4 | But they also have a steadier , more sober way of edging themselves forward with their front pair of fins . |
| 5 | An anonymous seventeenth-century chorographer remarked : Robert Reyce described High Suffolk as ‘ Parts inclining to the east ’ where pasture ruled , the people ‘ contenting themselves onely with so much tillage as will satisfie their own expences ’ . |
| 6 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |