Example sentences of "themselves round " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mayor and Corporation made their way back and grouped themselves round the cart , glad that somebody else was making the decisions . |
| 2 | Shelduck first bred in Sussex in 1904 but , although numbers established themselves round Chichester and Pagham Harbours fairly quickly , colonisation of the rest of the county has been slow and the breeding population is still mainly concentrated around these two harbours . |
| 3 | The German crowd put up black umbrellas and grouped themselves round the courier . |
| 4 | They often coiled themselves round hills . |
| 5 | She looked down , afraid that the shirt and waistcoat had shaped themselves round her small breasts and so betrayed her . |
| 6 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 7 | His fingers wrapped themselves round her ankles , sliding upwards , making her skin tingle . |
| 8 | When the introductions were complete , the Exec Director , the DDA , the DDI , Sorge and Nowak settled themselves round the small conference table . |
| 9 | The wind had ripped the tarpaulin off some of the laid-up boats , and huge fragments of oilcloth were flying at random , wrapping themselves round masts and rails . |
| 10 | They flittered down the stairs , Ginger Rogers a deux , and draped themselves round the nearest male , an elderly , pale faced banker — ‘ Allo , ’ they purred , ‘ 'Ow do you like sex ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |