Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the welter of information available , perhaps the most significant point to emerge from user studies is that few , if any , of their findings lend themselves to general applicability . |
| 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 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 4 | They reached the shelter of the brick-built cainca far enough ahead of their pursuers to lock themselves in , and for several minutes the coolies milled around the building , trying without success to smash the stout wooden doors and shutters . |
| 5 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 6 | For too many of its members consider themselves to be over-mighty . |
| 7 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 8 | Society is entitled by means of its laws to protect itself from dangers , whether from within or without . |
| 9 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 10 | Mum Carol encouraged all of her children to express themselves but was never the ‘ pushy showbiz mum ’ . |
| 11 | The sight made her swallow convulsively , and unconsciously she curled her fingers into the palms of her hands to stop herself from simply reaching out to touch his skin . |
| 12 | Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air , turned , and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench . |
| 13 | ‘ As you know , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ the not-fully-late Lord of the Wyrmberg , Greicha the First , has stipulated that there will be no succession until one of his children feels himself — or as . |