Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 2 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 3 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 4 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 5 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 6 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 7 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 8 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 9 | He was half turned towards her , and Maria saw him lift a hand and watched it move towards her , coming to rest against her bare midriff , warm fingers shaping themselves lightly to its gentle curve . |
| 10 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 11 | Jacobs ' folly had been to play ‘ Ca n't Happen Here ’ ‘ by a group of American male singers calling themselves the Mothers of Invention ’ on BBC TV 's Juke Box Jury , adding that the record had been made on a ‘ trip ’ . |
| 12 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 13 | Hip hop is the sound of threatened individuals asserting themselves against an uncaring world , taking on all comers and dispensing rough ( social ) justice or vengeance . |
| 14 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 15 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 16 | She felt a sudden burst of indignation against these overstuffed bigwigs cramming themselves with food , while she sat and starved . |
| 17 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 18 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 19 | ‘ And how are my little chickens behaving themselves ? ’ |
| 20 | In many cases , those who had come had spent large sums preparing themselves adequately to join the English ranks , such was their keenness to serve under a commander of high reputation . |
| 21 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 22 | In fact , Euratom was to be the poor relation of the Rome Treaty , slow to begin its work and very soon unable to prevent national interests exerting themselves . |
| 23 | The US gear filtering into Britain has been joined by Australian , European and Japanese workwear , of which the most notable brands have come from Australia via a group of Notting Hill-based boys calling themselves PIL . |
| 24 | In the case of the mid-seventeenth century we find groups of current historians who share social and frequently explicit political assumptions identifying themselves with right and left , and often implicitly acknowledging that their own political agendas dictate not only their naming of the past but their unhappiness with opposing critical orientations . |
| 25 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 26 | The reasons behind thousands upon thousands of black kids immersing themselves in sport may stem from basic inequalities which I find unacceptable , and , indeed , immoral , but I can not affirm that sport is some device for the perpetuation of these inequalities any more than I can agree with some critics , such as Paul Hoch , that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination designed to slough off energies or divert them into meaningless channels ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 28 | My head was splitting open now , black diamonds forcing themselves through from the inside . |
| 29 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 30 | In fact , it was a police exercise and was solely staffed by two undercover officers calling themselves Gary and Aggi . |