Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In theory , the EMS is a means by which the currencies of the EC are maintained at a stable exchange rate with one another ; in practice , it means all the weaker currencies aligning themselves to the strongest , the Deutsche Mark . |
| 3 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 4 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 5 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 6 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 7 | So how would the mere existence of Labour Party membership cards in the North prevent the electorate voting themselves into a United Ireland if they so desired ? |
| 8 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 9 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 10 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 11 | Life is good … one can understand these people behind the lines resigning themselves to the war … |
| 12 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | A volatile , erratic but undeniably charismatic figure , with a loyal following among the Syrian troops enriching themselves in the Bekaa Valley , among the Palestinian terrorists financed by Lebanese drug trafficking , and among Arabs living in Detroit and Los Angeles who distributed the product , Rifat Assad was also too valuable an asset to fear official displeasure from any quarter , Syrian , French or American . |
| 14 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 17 | So far , groups of crew have had an induction course and what is called ‘ a long sail ’ , when they spend several days acquainting themselves with the boat and gear , absorbing everything from how the cooker is switched on and how to flush the head to hoisting the mainsail and steering . |
| 18 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | But , in the euphoria of the moment , were the local breeders blinding themselves to the fact that what they were really doing was preserving freaks ? |
| 22 | The redistribution of income and wealth has been matched by a realignment of people 's political allegiances with an increasing number of those with modest resources allying themselves with the most prosperous sections of the community . |
| 23 | An honest ‘ airing ’ may entail managers putting themselves on the line for criticism as it is clear that the inefficiency of a manager can in itself be a cause for tension in a bureau . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 26 | His grip tightened , his fingers burying themselves in the knot of hair at her nape . |
| 27 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 28 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 29 | Aircraft captains are legally entitled to deny boarding to any passengers presenting themselves at the aircraft who , cat the captain 's absolute discretion , are unacceptably under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 30 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |