Example sentences of "[vb -s] oneself " in BNC.
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| 1 | For public transport flights it is a very small risk indeed , but it can only be regarded as a prudent action to take out personal life insurance before one voluntarily exposes oneself to the hazards of flight . |
| 2 | Alas , one knows only too well that if Life magazine had had to cough up just one dollar for every time one has oneself cried ‘ Eureka ’ , or its golfing counterpart , that American publication would have been bled dry . |
| 3 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 4 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 5 | In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ . |
| 6 | There is one elementary truth , the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans ; and the moment one definitely commits oneself , then Providence moves too . |
| 7 | The moment that one definitely commits oneself , then Providence moves too . |
| 8 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 9 | There is an automatic connection if one opens oneself up to see . |
| 10 | When one tries , one finds oneself a spectator at the event . |
| 11 | It is no accident that people in AI rarely draw flow-charts , and it is a cliché of programming in LISP that if one finds oneself drawing a flow-chart , one has not understood how LISP works . |
| 12 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 13 | Wandering around Wainfleet one finds oneself walking from one atmosphere to another . |
| 14 | One finds oneself agreeing with Karl quite often . |
| 15 | It appears to be futile in that inevitably one finds oneself conceiving something else . |
| 16 | He was not yet of an age where polite altruism is practised.among friends , a situation in which one denies oneself comfort and offers it to another . |
| 17 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 18 | ‘ Is she being pushed enough , one asks oneself ? ’ |
| 19 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 20 | ‘ I know , I understand : one lays oneself open to this sort of thing with animals . |
| 21 | If one helps oneself to a service or property , one does not obtain by deception . |
| 22 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 23 | It requires great restraint not to smother children with good intentions , to endure those looks of disappointment , and to banish feelings of guilt when one puts oneself first . |
| 24 | One relieves oneself . |
| 25 | One considers oneself able to be a Christian while holding to these principles because one believes that these very principles are fundamental to Christianity , or at least not incommensurate with it . |
| 26 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 27 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 29 | There is no reason but to think ( if one is a religious person ) that people were in tune with God in other ages , as indeed one believes oneself also to be . |