Example sentences of "[verb] themselves and [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back stage was like the Costa Brava : everyone oiling themselves and each other . |
| 2 | The team 's philosophy is to encourage disabled people to help themselves and each other , particularly by running parts of the centre themselves . |
| 3 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 4 | Pupils use the dictionaries to revise words , for example , in Level 1 flaps over the words help pupils test themselves and each other . |
| 5 | Terry saw other apes biting themselves and each other and gnawing at the bars , all classic signs of distress . |
| 6 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 7 | From the opening , during the cold New York winter of 1967 , the queues extending round the block outside Manhattan cinemas consisted mostly of young people hugging themselves and each other , and stamping their feet to keep warm , full of the expectation of seeing a movie that addressed them and their problems . |