Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall . |
| 2 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 3 | More than 100 people a week are taken to hospital after hurting themselves on supermarket trolleys . |
| 4 | From April 1992 , there has been a tax concession on both college fees and the cost of study material which leads to Vocational Qualifications , consequently those financing themselves on HCIMA programmes do not have to pay the tax element of their fees in the first place . |
| 5 | Furthermore , teachers must get used to seeing themselves on film . |
| 6 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |
| 7 | Somehow , somewhere , she got the impression that they were congratulating themselves on Martin and Rachel 's failure ; on their very irresponsible approach to Phoebe 's education . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |