Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pointed to the frieze under the formidable warrior-king : ‘ General Yorck , General Blücher , General Scharnhorst , principal generals of the War of Liberation in which the German people freed themselves from French occupation in 1813 . |
| 2 | I am concerned about the position in which some people find themselves as a result of problems with the funds . |
| 3 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 4 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 5 | I 'm beginning to realize why perfectly sane people pitch themselves at the mercy of the elements miles from the security of terra firma , has provided the perfect resort for our first events of the . |
| 6 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 7 | But wherever these people dragged themselves from , their expectancy hung heavy in the air . |
| 8 | But wherever these people dragged themselves from , their expectancy hung heavy in the air . |
| 9 | Many people launch themselves into their new plans with no preparation at all . |
| 10 | ‘ As they strap in for holiday flights , how many people imagine themselves at the controls ? ’ said a Virgin spokesman . |
| 11 | Many people finding themselves in this position would also benefit from spending a few weeks engaged in extensive job search activities as members of a Job Club . |
| 12 | And , like James Brown ( the American singer ) said on TV the other day , ‘ black kids need black people to associate themselves with . ’ |
| 13 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 14 | Interpersonal conflict occurs between two or more people when attitudes , motives , values , expectations or activities are incompatible and if those people perceive themselves to be in disagreement . |
| 15 | Questions of prestige , irrational though they might be , received new emphasis when more people identified themselves with the nation . |
| 16 | In this fast-moving world , more and more people find themselves in situations which , without the protection of effective and specific insurance cover , can have serious financial consequences . |
| 17 | As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work . |
| 18 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 19 | As more and more people concern themselves with psychological growth , we anticipate extensions of intellectual , emotional and creative capabilities . |
| 20 | If more people confined themselves to dealing with facts then life would be a whole lot simpler . ’ |
| 21 | It will show that , while older people organized themselves into pressure groups and old age itself became an increasingly attractive political issue , ultimately the organizations representing pensioners found themselves powerless to combat the notion that enforced retirement should become the normal experience for older people . |
| 22 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 23 | Cases of suicide are well-documented , and there was at least one instance when several people barricaded themselves into a flat and refused to leave . |
| 24 | The best people involve themselves in their communities and you will find them playing a role disproportionate to their total numbers in such fields as education , the arts , local government and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 26 | By inhaling poisonous vapours , young people put themselves at risk of : |
| 27 | There were subsequent waves of evacuation — during the blitz of late 1940 , via the Children 's Overseas Reception Scheme of the same year ( which sent children principally to Canada ) , and in 1944 when the V1 and V2 rockets arrived — and , of course , roughly 2 million people evacuated themselves by private arrangement in the first months of the war . |
| 28 | A little later when local people formed themselves into vigilantees and eventually into a battalion of the UDA , he was asked to take charge of the extensive social work sponsored by it in the district . |
| 29 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |