Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | We ca n't , we ca n't say , ca n't erm really just contradict ourselves like that can we ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 're not putting ourselves in that position — all we 're doing is selling music . ’ |
| 8 | He can be met , really met , only in the encounter in which we finite creatures of time and history are confronted by the One who is infinite and eternal , and who remains infinite and eternal and ‘ wholly Other ’ than ourselves in that meeting . |
| 9 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 10 | Well that 's why I said to you , and , and Laura , er to James , no way would we get ourselves in that position for you you have your lives to lead |
| 11 | Providing the trophies , getting to know the people involved , and getting publicity obviously for ourselves from that , which has been very rewarding , very enjoyable . |
| 12 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 13 | ourselves on that , that 's new |
| 14 | We obviously ca n't go thrusting ourselves on that poor woman now . ’ |
| 15 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 16 | Ultimately , I believe that er , the best interest is leave it to ourselves by that particular process , and with that Chairman , I wish to conclude . |
| 17 | Hating himself for that snobbery , he drove the boy harder , refusing to admit to himself that he was failing . |
| 18 | Should Alan Ingram 's verdict on the Budget be widely held , Mr Lamont would do well to prepare himself for that growth to stop dead in its tracks . |
| 19 | He could n't make her out , or himself for that matter . |
| 20 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm certain he 's far too sure of himself for that . |
| 22 | The evidence indicates an immediate confirmation of Mercian overlordship in the territory of the Hwicce , when at the beginning of his reign Offa defined the relationship of Eanberht and his brothers , Uhtred and Ealdred , rulers of the Hwicce , to himself as that of reguli , kinglets ( CS 183 : S 55 ; CS 107 : S 56 ) , but Offa 's position may have been more secure here than elsewhere . |
| 23 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 24 | It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity . |
| 25 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 26 | He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 28 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 29 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 30 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |