Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 2 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 3 | The giant cells of the caterpillar 's body die and the dormant cell clusters suddenly begin to divide rapidly , nourishing themselves on the soup of the disintegrated caterpillar body . |
| 4 | Sergeant the dog trotted along the riverbank a little further and came upon a flock of mallard ducks , each with beak tucked under wing , sunning themselves on the bank . |
| 5 | Labour 's Robin Cook accused him and the Cabinet of ‘ sunning themselves on the deckchairs of Europe while watching the economy sink below the horizon ’ . |
| 6 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 7 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | An honest ‘ airing ’ may entail managers putting themselves on the line for criticism as it is clear that the inefficiency of a manager can in itself be a cause for tension in a bureau . |
| 10 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 11 | But if the purpose is no more precisely formulated than that , the playback session may never get beyond teachers ' purely subjective reactions to seeing themselves on the screen . |
| 12 | Enjoying themselves on the slide and climbing frame are Laura Munday , Hannah Sullivan , Michelle Thorne , James Shrubb , Jason Jackson and Libby Stokes . |
| 13 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |
| 14 | In Ostland the horde began to loot and destroy with customary Orc efficiency , crushing the spring crops underfoot and gorging themselves on the hard won stores of the local people . |