Example sentences of "they [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 2 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 3 | Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers , who may imitate them and style themselves upon them . |
| 4 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 5 | Simon was convinced that the only way to gain power over his nightmares , to rid himself of them forever , was to defy them and steep himself in further acts of intimidation and violence . |