Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first flush of glasnost much information was made available and deputies often asserted themselves aggressively . |
| 2 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 3 | In attempting to develop a new collective sense of Englishness , intellectuals and administrators alike applied themselves to what , at an earlier ( and indeed later ) time would have been seen as an " un-English " and idealist version of the national life . |
| 4 | In an age when infantrymen and gunners almost prided themselves in their ignorance of each other 's function , Pétain , the St. Cyrien , had learnt more about the use of artillery than many gunners would ever know . |
| 5 | For instance , Music and Sports both find themselves in the Arts . |
| 6 | Protestants and Catholics certainly see themselves as different peoples with different histories , and for the most part maintain different cultural traditions . |
| 7 | I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart . |
| 8 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 9 | Boys and girls naturally grouped themselves separately . |
| 10 | A computer manager sought by police for the murder of his wife and children apparently killed himself by walking into the sea . |
| 11 | Unless stomach acids have a job to do in digesting food they tend to cause discomfort , and dieters often find themselves turning to extra food to quell that unpleasant acidic feeling when the stomach is largely empty . |