Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 2 | Prospective mineral developers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate development plans . |
| 3 | He acknowledges that before a contemplative is ready , like Moses , to climb the mountain , he must prepare himself by the time-honoured Western disciplines of Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio — study of scripture , meditation and prayer — but he tells his readers that other authors will tell them all they need to know about these . |
| 4 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 5 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 6 | She wants her image ‘ sorted out ’ before she signs a deal to prevent any manipulation , to ensure no one tells her how she should present herself to the record-buying public . |
| 7 | The fact that our partner is of the opposite sex automatically means we must familiarise ourselves with the general information on the basic differences . |
| 8 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
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| 10 | For an instant , Jimmy wondered whether he should hurl himself at the plate-glass windows . |
| 11 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 12 | It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper . |
| 13 | I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew : |
| 14 | There is no need for control , no need to save , one must express oneself to the fullest — and the way to do that is to shop . |
| 15 | First , however , he must prove himself in the hardest job of his life . |
| 16 | The jury must place themselves in the accused 's position with the accused 's knowledge . |
| 17 | This does not mean that the governing body should involve itself in the day-to-day running of the school . |
| 18 | The right hon. Gentleman must address himself to the new situation which is developing and in which there will be a single currency . |
| 19 | Fourth , residential workers should concern themselves with the personal self-worth of young people as future citizens , thereby giving equal value to the encouragement of intellectual , creative and social skills on the one hand , and success in personal and family relationships on the other . |
| 20 | I remember Billy Graham saying at Earls Court back in 1966 that the Christian Church in England should organise itself like the Communist Party : by forming active and multiplying cells , fixing a timetable , planning a strategy and working it through . |
| 21 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 22 | It may spend itself before the next one . ’ |
| 23 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 24 | She could view with contempt those of her fellow tourists who , after the Aegean , could excite themselves over the meretricious charms of Venice . |
| 25 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 26 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 27 | If you plan to stay up on election night , you could sustain yourself in the small hours with freshly baked pizza . |
| 28 | I mean if if a woman undresses okay let's take a scenario okay Simon maybe er you know you could put yourself in the same situation |
| 29 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 30 | Once in he could lose himself among the excited household , and never be in one place long enough to be an object of suspicion , until he could find a means of encountering Ralf Isambard alone . |