Example sentences of "[vb -s] oneself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For public transport flights it is a very small risk indeed , but it can only be regarded as a prudent action to take out personal life insurance before one voluntarily exposes oneself to the hazards of flight . |
| 2 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 3 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 4 | In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ . |
| 5 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 6 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 7 | If one helps oneself to a service or property , one does not obtain by deception . |
| 8 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 9 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |