Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off . |
| 3 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 4 | I listened to a woman executive on the radio the other morning explaining as to an idiot audience that the abolition of the wages councils was long overdue since workers could n't keep on pricing themselves out of the labour market . |
| 5 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 6 | The pool was packed with salmon and sea-trout , tearing round like mad things , splashing and leaping , throwing themselves out of the water in spectacular displays . |