Example sentences of "sun themselves on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some brightly coloured butterflies , orange and yellow and black and white — his father would have known their names — sunned themselves on the mellow rosy brickwork , spreading their wings flat in the heat . |
| 7 | Red jungle fowl , the ancestors of all our domestic chickens , sun themselves on the edge of the forest . |