Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 2 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 3 | Properly testing themselves against risk , as a human must , and does |
| 4 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 5 | Are the parent birds really putting themselves at risk for their offspring , laying down their own lives so that their young may live ? |
| 6 | It was the concrete embodiment of the principle of popular sovereignty : not the people choosing a government once every four or five or seven years , but the people continuously governing themselves from month to month and year to year . |