Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 4 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm just going to rely on my players behaving themselves and trust that the referee interprets the rules with the realisation that it is a competition . ’ |