Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deaf and dumb children who could manage by self-teaching alone through their eyes to make themselves useful and a source of income to their parents did not often find their way into the asylums . |
| 2 | Examining the cultural foundations through which societies characterised themselves ( e.g. myths , rituals , games ) , anthropologists increasingly perceived that history is culturally ordered and produced according to the structures by which historical happenings are understood . |
| 3 | ‘ But I would n't — I did n't — ’ Polly cried , then broke off , fastening her lower lip between her teeth to stop herself venting her frustration and growing fear on the man opposite . |
| 4 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 6 | From the welter of information available , perhaps the most significant point to emerge from user studies is that few , if any , of their findings lend themselves to general applicability . |
| 7 | To those at home in Jubilee week , fiddling exasperatedly with their television sets , the spectacle of their children mutilating themselves with safety-pins and chains , dressing in the black plastic sacks normally reserved for household refuse and generally conforming to all the stereotypes of what the popular press had identified as the ‘ punk-rock ’ phenomenon , was a symptom of some imponderable national malaise , and the harbinger of an awful future . |
| 8 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 9 | They reached the shelter of the brick-built cainca far enough ahead of their pursuers to lock themselves in , and for several minutes the coolies milled around the building , trying without success to smash the stout wooden doors and shutters . |
| 10 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 11 | For too many of its members consider themselves to be over-mighty . |
| 12 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 13 | Society is entitled by means of its laws to protect itself from dangers , whether from within or without . |
| 14 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 15 | Mum Carol encouraged all of her children to express themselves but was never the ‘ pushy showbiz mum ’ . |
| 16 | The sight made her swallow convulsively , and unconsciously she curled her fingers into the palms of her hands to stop herself from simply reaching out to touch his skin . |
| 17 | Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air , turned , and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench . |
| 18 | ‘ As you know , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ the not-fully-late Lord of the Wyrmberg , Greicha the First , has stipulated that there will be no succession until one of his children feels himself — or as . |
| 19 | ‘ The clouds beneath our feet spread themselves to the water , and the clouds of the sky almost joined them . ’ |
| 20 | At Board/WEA level , as neither body wished the impasse with which members found themselves confronted to continue interminably Hickson met Green informally . |
| 21 | While one has to admire the contortions into which employers forced themselves to go to prove that their current practice was rational , coherent and best for all concerned , one feels they do protest too much . |
| 22 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 23 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 24 | When I look at you , it is barely within my powers to convince myself that this is not , in fact , the case ! ’ |
| 25 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 26 | Captive and wild elephants have been observed holding sticks in their trunks to scratch themselves and using leafy branches as gigantic fly swats . |
| 27 | Douglas McGregor , in his book The Human Side of Enterprise , discussed the way in which managers see themselves in relation to others . |
| 28 | A common example is the situation in which students find themselves being asked questions on topics that have not been taught . |
| 29 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 30 | What it must now do is issue some clear guidelines on the manner in which doctors involve themselves — directly or indirectly — in promoting unproved remedies to the general public . |