Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’ |
| 2 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 3 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 4 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
| 5 | Life is good … one can understand these people behind the lines resigning themselves to the war … |
| 6 | I was recently at a film festival and you should have seen the heterosexuals flaunting themselves . ’ |
| 7 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |
| 8 | The second relates to the skill of the workers offering themselves for employment . |
| 9 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |
| 10 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 11 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 12 | Erm there are days , occasions that could have sparked off major confrontation with the trade unions binding , the members binding themselves together to protect the interests of one of their colleagues . |
| 13 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 14 | ‘ Not only is there a risk of the whales beaching themselves . |
| 15 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 16 | The men talked on about the project , and the women feeling themselves to be excluded — as perhaps they were — started a conversation among themselves . |
| 17 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 18 | He left notes after the killings signing himself ‘ Son-of-Sam , ’ so that the killings became known as the ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ murders . |