Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 2 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 3 | The giant cells of the caterpillar 's body die and the dormant cell clusters suddenly begin to divide rapidly , nourishing themselves on the soup of the disintegrated caterpillar body . |
| 4 | They 're letting down womanhood by selling themselves on their sex . |
| 5 | As spring came and the evenings became warmer , the boys began to serenade the girls at night with songs , accompanying themselves on a guitar or mandolin . |
| 6 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 7 | At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall . |
| 8 | Sergeant the dog trotted along the riverbank a little further and came upon a flock of mallard ducks , each with beak tucked under wing , sunning themselves on the bank . |
| 9 | Labour 's Robin Cook accused him and the Cabinet of ‘ sunning themselves on the deckchairs of Europe while watching the economy sink below the horizon ’ . |
| 10 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 11 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 12 | Priding themselves on being modern-minded about such things , they subjected passion to planning and decided to have a spring baby . |
| 13 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 14 | Children yearned to be like her and parents , even grandparents , were happy to see their young modelling themselves on a star seemingly unsullied by the darker side of rock and roll . |
| 15 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 16 | Given time , Boulestin could perhaps with his book of menus have opened the door to organized cooking for thousands of young women who in the thirties were finding themselves on their own in flats and bed-sitting rooms knowing nothing more about how to make a meal than that it ought to taste nice and should not be a bore . |
| 17 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 18 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 19 | An honest ‘ airing ’ may entail managers putting themselves on the line for criticism as it is clear that the inefficiency of a manager can in itself be a cause for tension in a bureau . |
| 20 | They let them ‘ off the hook ’ by , in a sense , putting themselves on it . |
| 21 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 22 | More than 100 people a week are taken to hospital after hurting themselves on supermarket trolleys . |
| 23 | We saw the obstacle course where the dogs learn to imagine they are six feet tall so that they can keep their blind owners safe from hurting themselves on low objects . |
| 24 | Says an Expo spokesperson : ‘ Ultimately , the entire operation cuts the real cost of recording to approximately £160 , half that of most demos and provides the band with a public profile , reviews , recording experience , a high quality product and experience in marketing themselves on a small scale . ’ |
| 25 | From April 1992 , there has been a tax concession on both college fees and the cost of study material which leads to Vocational Qualifications , consequently those financing themselves on HCIMA programmes do not have to pay the tax element of their fees in the first place . |
| 26 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 27 | But if the purpose is no more precisely formulated than that , the playback session may never get beyond teachers ' purely subjective reactions to seeing themselves on the screen . |
| 28 | Furthermore , teachers must get used to seeing themselves on film . |
| 29 | Enjoying themselves on the slide and climbing frame are Laura Munday , Hannah Sullivan , Michelle Thorne , James Shrubb , Jason Jackson and Libby Stokes . |
| 30 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |