Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day was Thursday , the start of the academic week ; Flavia combed her hair , washed her eyes and marched herself to the tower . |
| 2 | We retraced our steps and treated ourselves to a rucksack sledge down the corrie , taking great care not to end up with an ice-axe up the bum . |
| 3 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 4 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 5 | Rattus rattus moved all over Europe and Asia , hitching rides on camel trains and on waggons and particularly on ships , and the fleas deserted the marmots and attached themselves to the rats , and the bacilli went with them . |
| 6 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |