Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion . |
| 3 | There would be noting to indicate how compelling and sweeping is the style , how wonderfully well Nick Farr-Jones and Bob Dwyer and their men conduct themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |