Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | understand why all the agencies involved identify four in those circumstances I think in R A Southern Water district to themselves , because we 've got that information repeated across the county erm and it seemed to me important that erm somebody er accepted responsibility for taking an overall view of the circumstances to er merely because of course we can only concern ourselves with manmade er circumstances rather than er erm but I think you know members would agree that as a strategic planning authority , we appear to be the only auth er the only body which can erm in the cold light of day we view the circumstances look at the implications for strategic planning and local planning and the suggestion of those developments and obviously that would be a concern to us and er I felt and I have to that it is an area of responsibility erm which er within the of this |
| 2 | Nor do we easily associate ourselves with violent behaviour . |
| 3 | We ca n't , we ca n't say , ca n't erm really just contradict ourselves like that can we ? |
| 4 | All this is widely socially sanctioned , so we can hardly describe ourselves as ‘ animal lovers ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
| 7 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 8 | but less superficially it is a fact that Christian truth is not to be equated with our formulations of it and we must always satisfy ourselves with pointers to it . |
| 9 | However frightening a panic attack may be we must always remind ourselves of one fact : none of the symptoms of a panic attack can harm us . |
| 10 | ‘ We must now bring ourselves into line with England and only play international matches on nights when they , too , have games . |
| 11 | We can now address ourselves to that much discussed but much misunderstood phenomenon of British.imperial thinking in the early decades of the twentieth century , the glorification of ‘ Indirect Rule ’ and its elevation into an official doctrine of imperial administration . |
| 12 | We may today distance ourselves from , indeed reject , this tradition should we so wish . |
| 13 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 14 | At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 . |
| 15 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 16 | First we must once again concern ourselves with method and examine two assumptions which Engels took over from Morgan concerning the significance of kinship terms . |
| 17 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 18 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 19 | The remit with regard to the er one day seminar , it was suggested at the last meeting er that it would be useful if the activists of the free union actually got together held a one day seminar or training course whatever terminology you like to put on it er to actually educate ourselves on how we should be conducting the campaign basically . |
| 20 | After it 's all over , we 'll never allow ourselves to be separated again … |
| 21 | We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings . |
| 22 | Let us therefore remind ourselves of the huge distances , inner and outer , that Joyce has travelled , and take one final look at his total undertaking . |