Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 2 | How are we going to prepare ourselves for that competitive market er if our interest rates are such that they 're starving industry of it 's investment and pushing business after business into liquidation and throwing people out of jobs ? |
| 3 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 4 | Now spent , exhausted , heavier than ever , we pull ourselves off this fun-float , this transport of delight , to see beneath us a crushed flower , a stamped upon camellia , its pollen and sap smeared like blood on the infertile ground , the dry ground , the any old iron , lurking-tetanus ground . |
| 5 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 6 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 7 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |
| 8 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 9 | We may assert that people are essentially good and born in a ‘ state of grace ’ because we need to convince ourselves of these facts . |
| 10 | Having looked at some of the reasons why God is thought of in personal terms , it is as well to remind ourselves of some of the dangers of doing so . |
| 11 | A good starting point for any assertiveness training is to remind ourselves of some of these basic rights ( see Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 12 | Well we 'd have to divest ourselves of some of our assets . |
| 13 | We ca n't , we ca n't say , ca n't erm really just contradict ourselves like that can we ? |
| 14 | It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils . |
| 15 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 16 | To throw ourselves into those turbulent waters and then be unable to regain the punt would have put paid to any hope of rescuing Dennis . |
| 17 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 18 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 19 | The social charter has an enormous role to play and we should concern ourselves with that , because it is relevant to us all , wherever we live and whatever part of the country we represent . |
| 20 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 21 | We have pleased to reserve this hearing until we had had an opportunity of acquainting ourselves with all the circumstances . ’ |
| 22 | For our Christian message to grow and spread we have to learn to know and share ourselves with each other . |
| 23 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 24 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 25 | We indulged ourselves with some jars of Marmite and bitter marmalade ( which proved not to go well with rice ) and an emergency medicinal bottle of Grand Marnier . |
| 26 | ‘ We made some bad defensive errors we sometimes make it hard for ourselves with some naive defending as a team and this is something we have to improve on . ’ |
| 27 | There is much abstruse learning on the subject ( see , in particular , the illuminating discussion by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 139–142 ) , but for present purposes it is not , I think , necessary for us to concern ourselves with this point of classification . |
| 28 | We then find ourselves with these two approaches : the simultaneous and the bilingual . |
| 29 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 30 | ‘ I fear we have to blame ourselves in such matters . |