Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on . |
| 2 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 3 | As adults , however , many of us cripple ourselves with fears of making mistakes , of making a wrong decision , of failing , of feeling embarrassed , of repeating the past . |
| 4 | Whereas the discussion of strain and its measures involves kinematics only and may be conducted with no mention whatever of the forces that cause the deformation we must when considering stress involve ourselves in mechanics , that is , the nature of the forces operating on a system and the application of Newton 's laws ( we exclude in this discussion any relativistic effects ) . |
| 5 | So we involve ourselves in businesses that perform consistently well over time . |
| 6 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 7 | Along with marketing to attract more customers , the management changes throughout the sector have required that senior academics transform themselves into planners , seeking to attract money towards their work , rather than relying on the previous expectation that it would fall like manna from the principal 's office . |
| 8 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 9 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 10 | If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets . |
| 11 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 12 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 13 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
| 14 | The Capital Letters hurl themselves like javelins across your living room and impale themselves in your ears with an audible splat . |
| 15 | I paint my face , cover myself in beads . |
| 16 | You know when you 're small , you cover yourself with ropes of it and run along the beach ? |
| 17 | Sunshine three hundred and fifty days a year , and Californians fry themselves under microwaves . |
| 18 | Waves organize themselves into trains so that , as one of their number expires , a memory of its strength is bequeathed to its successors , consolidating their length ( the distance between crests ) and speed and height . |
| 19 | Thus , the world and man reveal themselves by undertakings . |
| 20 | Guilt can also lead us to put a brave face on everything while we overload ourselves with responsibilities and goals . |
| 21 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 22 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 23 | I 'm wide awake now , because I 've suddenly seen the formula 2X35L IX32M appear in my brain , like the glowing green digits on the video , and then softly , effortlessly deconstruct itself into elements of meaning . |
| 24 | These have far-reaching implications , especially for the strategies and styles adopted by advisory staff and heads , and for the ways class teachers view themselves as professionals . |
| 25 | Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate , their crimes political . |
| 26 | In addition , public enterprises also lend themselves to tasks that have more to do with political legitimation than with the needs of the economic system , and which increase the contradictory pressures on them . |
| 27 | Such an invitation should give an indication of what pictures could be taken or which parts of the event lend themselves to photographs . |
| 28 | Used as an integral part of teaching they lend themselves to workshops and multi-media situations . |
| 29 | Bay windows also lend themselves to blinds of all types . |
| 30 | As public shopping arcades lend themselves to situations of abuse it is important that they have somewhere warm to go ; one example of a voluntary initiative is that Bradford Council of Mosques has set up a day centre for retired older men . |