Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 2 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 3 | It ill behoves Opposition Members constantly , for ideological reasons , to decry my Department 's sponsorship of the sale of arms to friendly countries wishing to defend themselves within the terms of , for example , article 51 of the United Nations charter . |
| 4 | The picture is obscured by the different public and private agencies seeking to divest themselves of the burden by distributing costs between one another . |
| 5 | According to the National Consumer Council 's report Ordinary Justice ( 1989 ) , from which these figures are taken , few attended the court hearing to defend themselves against the claims . |
| 6 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |