Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] themselves [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 2 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 3 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 4 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 5 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 6 | People setting themselves up as the philosophers and artists and intelligentsia and other people setting themselves up as their assessors ? |
| 7 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 8 | My head was splitting open now , black diamonds forcing themselves through from the inside . |