Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 2 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 3 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 4 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 5 | They turned on the newly arrived Marines in surprise , and yet with considerable ferocity , hurling themselves at the armed men , who coolly gunned them down , their machetes being no match for rifles . |
| 6 | About a dozen were still milling around , hurling themselves at the fur shop window , almost certainly bullet proof , the rest were arguing or wrestling with about ten policemen who were too busy to tell us to move on even when the lights changed . |
| 7 | The three ravening bolts of fury launching themselves at him now , presented an entirely more complex problem . |
| 8 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 9 | By far the largest concentration is found at Chichester gravel pits , and the only other area at which more than 100 birds have occurred annually is Weir Wood Reservoir ; similar flocks seem now to be establishing themselves at Darwell Reservoir and Rye Harbour gravel pits . |
| 10 | Its director , Professor Julian Desmond , states : ‘ I do n't think a cholesterol count is a terribly useful thing to have and we do n't approve of people testing themselves at home . |
| 11 | Aircraft captains are legally entitled to deny boarding to any passengers presenting themselves at the aircraft who , cat the captain 's absolute discretion , are unacceptably under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 12 | Now he saw again Kerrison 's gloved fingers , sleek as eels , busying themselves at the body 's orifices . |
| 13 | It 's the pasta Italians use for those glorious family feasts that mark special occasions — or just any time they feel like spoiling themselves at table ! |
| 14 | As an individual response conflict may occur where workers , finding themselves at odds with their work for whatever reasons , may respond by taking time off or by leaving the job after a relatively short period . |
| 15 | Are the parent birds really putting themselves at risk for their offspring , laying down their own lives so that their young may live ? |
| 16 | Bisexual women ( who have sex with both women and men ) may be putting themselves at risk if they have unsafe sex with male partners . |
| 17 | Given the dependence of the industry on charcoal , it was difficult if not impossible for ironmasters to avoid putting themselves at risk , certainly in England , perhaps less so in Ireland . |
| 18 | With strong evidence to show that children under the age of two are at considerable risk from passive smoking , smokers are putting themselves at a disadvantage because agencies can select from equally suitable candidates who do not smoke . ’ |
| 19 | They had a soft spot for its mid- morning scene of desolation , the familiar down-and-outs warming themselves at their bonfires of pallets on the lorry park , street cleaners ineffectually sweeping piles of rotten fruit and a pecking order of scavengers collecting their portion of the spoils . |
| 20 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 21 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 22 | filling the house , making themselves at home . |
| 23 | Tents had gone up and the temporary occupants were busy making themselves at home . |
| 24 | The car slowed again more gently as the Annamese driver spotted another group of peasants gathering themselves at the roadside fifty yards ahead . |
| 25 | As Adam Woolf of Crisis explains : ‘ Our perception is that everyone else is enjoying themselves at Christmas with roast turkey , mince pies and pudding . |
| 26 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 27 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |
| 29 | But of course he was n't so inclined , not when women as beautiful as Lotta Pettersson were throwing themselves at his feet ! |
| 30 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |