Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 2 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 3 | The car slowed again more gently as the Annamese driver spotted another group of peasants gathering themselves at the roadside fifty yards ahead . |
| 4 | The prospect of students saddling themselves with enormous debts to pay their course fees and their maintenance is a frightening one . |
| 5 | The second has been the sheer number of institutions calling themselves tribunals . |
| 6 | From mid-September the security situation worsened , with a number of students burning themselves to death in protest . |
| 7 | The assumption that politics is not a place for women persists and must itself reduce the number of women putting themselves forward . |
| 8 | In the breaking-down process we find a number of ideas suggesting themselves . |
| 9 | If , for example , an organisation purports to keep a list of undischarged bankrupts , but makes no effort to seek information on persons discharging themselves from bankruptcy , it will be contravening this principle . |
| 10 | My fifteen miles ' walk had whetted my appetite , and therefore I looked with no angry gaze on Ranza Inn , and , despite the large company of tourists airing themselves outside , I made inquiries for breakfast , and was told it would not be ready for an hour ( it was now nine o'clock ) . |
| 11 | Even then , the problem of seamen finding themselves disqualified for petty reasons remained an aggravating one . |
| 12 | The emphasis is still on interests overtly organised in political action , and this occurs to the detriment of a sustained consideration of the implications of inaction , the problem of interests forming themselves into groups , and the whole context of politics and power . |
| 13 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 14 | There is nothing unusual in the idea of hospitals managing themselves . |