Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 2 | In about 1805 he and his brothers established themselves in Bristol as ‘ stonemasons , architects , builders etc . ’ , |
| 3 | Frankie felt his face redden and his hands clench themselves into fists . |
| 4 | Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken . |
| 5 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 6 | He fixes her with his eyes , all eager deferential intelligence , while his hands busy themselves rolling a joint . |
| 7 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |