Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 3 | Nobody throws themselves through the air without my permission , ’ muttered the Headmaster turning to Endill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 9 | If one helps oneself to a service or property , one does not obtain by deception . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No everybody keeps themselves to themselves , I think which is a shame really , cos erm I think they do that all over the country anyway , most of them , they keep themselves to themselves . |
| 13 | So that when you go into the Drama Studio with a group of students … and when you do decent work with them , everybody puts himself on the line , everybody . |
| 14 | It could well go on forever unless one of two things happens , unless everybody guards themselves against giving information away , which as a matter of practice many will do , and many probably wo n't , or secondly that some legislation is brought about to make this an offence , and to treat it seriously . |