Example sentences of "themselves [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | among anthropologists and among philosophers but I dare say that most readers of this book would like to situate themselves somewhere on the Epicurean side of the fence ; so would I , but the intellectual difficulties which flow from that position are very great . |
| 2 | ‘ Idolo , my hero , I am 'ere ! ’ yelled a busty blonde through cupped hands , earning herself a wave from Juan and dirty looks from both Sharon and Mrs Juan , who had stationed themselves grimly on the halfway line , surrounded by supporters . |
| 3 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 4 | They rush from the water , fling themselves down on the beach and proceed to roll around in agony , screaming and frothing at the mouth . |
| 5 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 6 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 7 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 8 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 9 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 10 | In London , you can index the mean income of the households by the state of the gutters outside ; in the area where the archive of Ephemera lies in boxes , waiting for its eventual home , there 's a kind of mangy green lozenge next to the local church where the derelicts hang around , propping themselves up on the park bench in a drift of beer cans and double strength cider bottles and blown crisp packets . |
| 11 | On the bank , the trumpet twittered again , and the water became full of spray and hurtling bodies as shoremen left their attack and threw themselves back on the sand . |
| 12 | Other examples include Marks and Spencer , and British Home Stores , two chains which based themselves originally on the clothing trade , but which between them have diversified into footwear , foodstuffs , toys and books , amongst other items . |
| 13 | By what means passengers thus fasten themselves securely on the roof of these vehicles , I know not ; but you constantly see numbers seated there , apparently at their ease , and in perfect safety . |
| 14 | People were run over by trains because they would stretch themselves out on the rails for a quick nap , or because they were drunk . |
| 15 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 16 | Erm and a lot of them , straddled themselves out on the pavement erm in groups of s thirty , forty people along Avenue . |
| 17 | The small number of influential British biologists , men such as Richard Owen and T. H. Huxley , often modelled themselves self-consciously on the Germans . |
| 18 | Peel quotes evidence that the raging streamfloods and sheetfloods mentioned above are the exceptions that have impressed themselves strongly on the mind of chance , lucky observers . |
| 19 | Most black elders in Britain today maintain themselves either on the level of income support rates or below the poverty level . |
| 20 | The flames which belched from every opening caused the two struggling men to fling themselves flat on the ground to escape their scorching blast . |
| 21 | Nomes flung themselves flat on the trembling deck of the cab . |