Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 200 species of birds have been seen anointing themselves with these substances . |
| 2 | This will equip those who are interested in developing themselves with the tools to reach greater responsibility and promotion , and of course greater rewards . |
| 3 | Well , preventing them filling themselves with drink . |
| 4 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 5 | Special treat : surrounding themselves with plastic ship models and watching Tora ! |
| 6 | Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts ! |
| 7 | Most notably , it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills . |
| 8 | ‘ Stuffing themselves with unaccustomed goodies , too . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 10 | The feminist movement has combined with ecology to make many women feel that stuffing themselves with pills is not what Mother Nature wants , and that learning to understand their bodies by the rhythm method is superior . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 12 | After feeding themselves with rumours of Napoleon 's defeat , Andalusia and Valencia made no attempt to resist the French . |
| 13 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 14 | Merchant princes did not forget their native towns and counties and the people there who might want for the means of providing themselves with even the most basic tools of their trade . |
| 15 | Allying themselves with neighbouring tribes , the Nez Perce thwarted Blackfoot aggression in a period of desperate warfare . |
| 16 | The redistribution of income and wealth has been matched by a realignment of people 's political allegiances with an increasing number of those with modest resources allying themselves with the most prosperous sections of the community . |
| 17 | In the eighteenth century the princes of continental Europe had become absolute by gaining direct control of the armed forces and by allying themselves with the landowning nobility . |
| 18 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
| 19 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 22 | ‘ And which of those , ’ said McGee , who clearly had a relationship with her , ‘ would you think the Bishop and the Canon and the Dean and the Archdeacon are pleasuring themselves with ? ’ |
| 23 | Sucked into the bureaucracy of their organizations , they feel there are few opportunities for providing a unique contribution to profit , for distinguishing themselves with exceptional results . |
| 24 | They lived together peaceably enough , busying themselves with good works and their neighbours ' affairs , and collecting objets d'art for their overcrowded gem of a house with a ruthless zeal which was a byword for miles around . |
| 25 | Excavation suggest that before this , Castle Dore was the centre of a large community made wealthy by the trade in tin and iron , as well as busying themselves with agriculture . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 27 | Work was stratified , resulting in the most inexperienced and least qualified nurses delivering practical nursing care to the patient while senior nurses planned , organised and coordinated this activity from the nurses ' station , thus controlling the work while busying themselves with administrative duties . |
| 28 | The prospect of students saddling themselves with enormous debts to pay their course fees and their maintenance is a frightening one . |
| 29 | Powering themselves with their tails and using their flippers for steering and balance , they are often seen travelling at speeds greater than 45 k per hour ( 25 knots ) , and the fastest species can reach maximum speeds of over 56 k per hour . |
| 30 | So far , groups of crew have had an induction course and what is called ‘ a long sail ’ , when they spend several days acquainting themselves with the boat and gear , absorbing everything from how the cooker is switched on and how to flush the head to hoisting the mainsail and steering . |