Example sentences of "people [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 2 | By inhaling poisonous vapours , young people put themselves at risk of : |
| 3 | With regard to Bancroft 's second point , our research was designed not only to quantify sexual practices but also to understand why people put themselves at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases , especially AIDS . |
| 4 | In the debate that followed , right-wing think-tanks pressed for radical changes : from introducing a requirement that people insure themselves against health bills and the state should merely help poor individuals , through tax relief to encourage private insurance , to the introduction of competition into the health market ( Letwin and Redwood , 1988 ; Pirie and Butler , 1988 ; Willetts and Goldsmith , 1988 ; Robinson , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | you know it 's almost as if it 's like er you know a sort of negative thing to , to , to find out about somebody erm so erm yeah I mean I think I , so I think you 'll , I think you 'll , you 'll of necessity have to try and do something which captures this , this sort of informal talk because as soon as people commit themselves to writing they 're gon na be erm they 're gon na be |
| 8 | Alongside these changes in age structure , and partly related to them , have been some substantial changes in the way in which people group themselves into households . |
| 9 | How people express themselves in words |