Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 2 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 3 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 4 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 5 | As two likeable gangsters running away from a vicious killer and the crack-selling Triads , Coltrane and Idle hide in a convent , where , inevitably , they find themselves in 101 dodgy situations . |
| 6 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 7 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 8 | In East Anglia , people either in , eh , on their pub lunches there , how they throw themselves onto that , all on too treacle pudding . |
| 9 | On the Northampton sites , they see themselves as exemplary green folk , since they make fewer demands on environmentally destructive goods and services than most of us . |
| 10 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 11 | Other regions of the kingdom , if they see themselves in similar plight , may take heart from a Northern intention and expression of spirit . |
| 12 | The Khedive has a number of sons and all of them see themselves as potential heirs . ’ |