Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANNADALE came from behind to beat Glasgow Western 2-1 at Blaris this afternoon , booking themselves a place in tomorrow 's semi-finals against either Lisnagarvey or Ballynahinch . |
| 2 | They are voluntarily shrinking themselves , cutting workforces and branch networks . |
| 3 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 4 | Building societies ' basic rules of operation were designed for home buyers to repay loans over periods of twenty to twenty-five years without over-committing themselves . |
| 5 | It sounded like footsteps , followed by a sliding noise , as of someone pressing themselves against the wall and sitting down . |
| 6 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 7 | This is because the aim of the exercise is to provide the participants with a practical tool for monitoring their drinking : if they want to cheat , they will only be cheating themselves . |
| 8 | Challenging themselves to fashion something beautiful from their desolate lot , they score with the crunchy hymn to friendship ‘ Palomine ’ , here included as both clenched-fist stomper and much more approachable strung-out slowie . |
| 9 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 10 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 11 | If he feels someone is not applying themselves 100 per cent , he wo n't spare reputations or ego — whoever you are . |
| 12 | I wo n't have staff justifying themselves to me . |
| 13 | Others talk of blizzards , of cyclones and hurricanes , howling and thrashing , winding themselves up before blowing themselves out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 16 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 17 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 18 | ‘ Rave Generator ’ -ish shards weaving themselves into what is fast becoming the UK house sound . |
| 19 | They became ‘ living sculptures ’ , only painting and photographing themselves and , famously , spraying themselves bronze , climbing a pedestal in a gallery and performing an eight-hour mime to ‘ Underneath The Arches ’ . |
| 20 | No sooner had Courtaulds read the comments by our Metro 's previous keeper , Jill Stanton — that the material had developed ‘ bobbly sweater syndrome ’ ( 25 July ) than they were inspecting the offending objects with microscopes and pronouncing themselves shocked and baffled . |
| 21 | The county council committee refused to comply with the request to remove Outram , pronouncing themselves well-pleased with their head-teacher . |
| 22 | Reptiles live largely in tropical environments , and the techniques they use for cooling themselves are probably even more important than warming techniques , as we have seen . |
| 23 | They were all young , all the artists of Montparnasse , all talented to a greater or lesser degree , all bravely pitting themselves against the indifference of the public . |
| 24 | The trees stooped groundward under the weight of their snow-laden branches and the humans followed their daily work , once again pitting themselves against the inexorable forces of Nature . |
| 25 | From such relatively peaceful origins they came , by the end of the century , to undertake external war for their employers , pitting themselves against other such groups ( the Companies or routiers ) , in which might be found not only Italians and Germans , but Flemings , Spaniards , Frenchmen and , at times , a few Englishmen . |
| 26 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 27 | Young men began ringing up or arriving on the doorstep and announcing themselves as ‘ Wedgie ’ or ‘ Snubs ’ or ‘ Schizo ’ and saying that Conor was the best there was , and was there anything they could do ? |
| 28 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 29 | He warned of disaster if they continued tearing themselves apart — then dubbed Labour leader John Smith and deputy Margaret Beckett the ‘ Whinge and Beckett ’ of politics . |
| 30 | Miss Logan imagined them panicking as the ground raged beneath them , tearing themselves free and violently bearing away their hobbles as they fled from the mountain . |