Example sentences of "their [det] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them abandoned their former preoccupations and devoted themselves instead to less controversial types of literary study , such as text exegesis ( Eikhenbaum and Boris Tomashevsky ) . |
| 2 | Departments , including costume and design , have started to operate the system , in which they cost their own services and sell themselves to BBC programmes . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 4 | In organisations like the WEA particularly , because of its grass roots and more democratic base , women have been able to take more control of their own learning and become their own teachers and organise themselves in ways which are less controlled by patriarchal infiltration . |
| 5 | Others seemed to derive pleasure from looking at their own bodies and caressing themselves , and from auto-erotic actions , and these people had led Freud to develop his concept of narcissism . |
| 6 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |