Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Messing about in boats is more fun in Venice than anywhere , if rather more precarious , and on such an afternoon as this people are enjoying themselves all over the water .
2 After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back .
3 They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up .
4 Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed .
5 In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to .
6 Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off .
7 Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world .
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