Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 2 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 3 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 4 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 5 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 6 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 7 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 8 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 9 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 10 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 11 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 15 | He was half turned towards her , and Maria saw him lift a hand and watched it move towards her , coming to rest against her bare midriff , warm fingers shaping themselves lightly to its gentle curve . |
| 16 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 17 | Jacobs ' folly had been to play ‘ Ca n't Happen Here ’ ‘ by a group of American male singers calling themselves the Mothers of Invention ’ on BBC TV 's Juke Box Jury , adding that the record had been made on a ‘ trip ’ . |
| 18 | Amadeo Franco Perez allegedly spent six years sending himself more than £1.25m of pay cheques for non-existent employees and selling fake tax receipts . |
| 19 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 20 | Hip hop is the sound of threatened individuals asserting themselves against an uncaring world , taking on all comers and dispensing rough ( social ) justice or vengeance . |
| 21 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 22 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 23 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 24 | Review your situation in the light of the preceding pages asking yourself , ‘ Are there areas of church life where we are operating in the dark , and where hard evidence would help us do things better ? ’ |
| 25 | She felt a sudden burst of indignation against these overstuffed bigwigs cramming themselves with food , while she sat and starved . |
| 26 | It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work . |
| 27 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 28 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 29 | Surprisingly perhaps , Jill , the extraordinarily feminine beauty , and Ken , who spent so much of his life these days camping himself , became great friends . |
| 30 | ‘ And how are my little chickens behaving themselves ? ’ |