Example sentences of "those who [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 2 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 3 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 4 | This is not the same form of heroism as those who put themselves at risk for others . |
| 5 | Centaury : Weakness of will ; those who let themselves be exploited or imposed upon — become subservient ; difficulty in saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 6 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 7 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 8 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 9 | With Romania seething next door , Mr Luchinsky will have his work cut out to capture the spirit of Stefan the Great from those who present themselves as his heirs . |
| 10 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 11 | Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick . |
| 12 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 13 | The small current campaign in California to prevent the use of Spanish is probably less about jobs , more about enforcing a single uniformity to the advantage of those who regard themselves as of English descent . |
| 14 | Tait and Stewart sought to show not the truth of Christianity , but its compatibility with modern science , and the narrowness of those who contented themselves with what they called ‘ how ’ questions and never with ‘ why ’ . |
| 15 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 16 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 17 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 18 | But those who trap themselves inside nationalist thinking , which includes most political journalists and politicians in the UK , prefer not to reckon with the historical fact that most of recorded human history managed fairly well , indeed probably much better , without nationalism . |
| 19 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 20 | His limited experience of the nature of modern warfare convinced him that those who sacrificed themselves for their country should not die in vain . |
| 21 | There really is an enormous amount of work and preparation for the Summer Fayre , and on behalf of those who enjoyed themselves , I would like to express our thanks to , the chairman of the day , and to his committee . |
| 22 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 23 | On average , the people who are most likely to opt for health insurance are those who know themselves to be relatively unhealthy . |
| 24 | However , the report fails to convey any sense of the complexity and lacunae of research findings and of the difficulties that await those who avail themselves uncritically of them . |
| 25 | ‘ God helps those who help themselves ’ , says the proverb . |
| 26 | ‘ God helps those who help themselves ’ , to repeat a proverb mentioned earlier . |
| 27 | ‘ The gods help those who help themselves . ’ |
| 28 | His Solidarity scheme , based on help for those who help themselves , has provided schools and sewers for those who might otherwise have waited years for benefits to trickle down . |
| 29 | This callous view of suffering which smacks strongly of the protestant ethic ( epitomized in the complacent exhortation : God helps those who help themselves ) has a very familiar ring and is clearly seen today in the attitudes towards the mentally ill held by all but the most enlightened members of western societies . |
| 30 | The Lord helps those who help themselves . |