Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] ourselves of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seeking revenge , we seek to rid ourselves of pain . |
| 2 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 3 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 4 | Having freed ourselves of the shackles of the classical conception of the company and its assertion that it is only the interest of the shareholders as property owners that the law should seek to protect , it becomes evident that a whole web of relationships of interdependence exist around and within the company . |
| 5 | Well we 'd have to divest ourselves of some of our assets . |
| 6 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 7 | We may assert that people are essentially good and born in a ‘ state of grace ’ because we need to convince ourselves of these facts . |
| 8 | It will help to remind ourselves of the challenge that Eglantine Jebb took up . |
| 9 | This was an important first principle , and one which we constantly have to remind ourselves of in days of limited resources . |
| 10 | We need to remind ourselves of the nature of judicial authority in the context of fundamental questions of constitutional law , as discussed above ( pp.33–41 ) . |
| 11 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |