Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 2 | And , as already mentioned , their dawn was bedeviled with controversy so that the leaders as well as sympathetic hearing people found themselves in dispute about the best methods of helping and educating them . |
| 3 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 4 | A few people were on the platform , the station staff busied themselves with mail bags and other items of luggage and parcels , at last the guard blew his whistle . |
| 5 | By inhaling poisonous vapours , young people put themselves at risk of : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is the use of this ‘ apparatus ’ which enables people to express themselves in speech and which gives speech its quality and pattern . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | staff exposed themselves to danger by standing in the four-foot . |
| 13 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night . |
| 16 | Despite the occasional brush with the law ( ‘ obstructing the police ’ in Vienna ) , Mr Rossi seems to have led a laudatory ( for a man of his calling ) existence — save for the fact that he bears no little responsibility in influencing the progeny of working people to attire themselves in tent material . |
| 17 | ‘ At Oxford , people defined themselves in class terms and this was all a tremendous shock to me in many ways . ’ |