Example sentences of "[pn reflx] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the time we console ourselves with the knowledge that we are ‘ good enough ’ , loving parents . |
| 2 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |
| 3 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 4 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 5 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 6 | We identify ourselves with the eternity of the self and no longer with the limitations and distress of our mental and physical ignorance . |
| 7 | But while some of us console ourselves with the promise of tuition sometime in the future , others decide to immerse themselves in a more intense personal schedule via the Musicians Institute , located in the heart of London 's Docklands . |
| 8 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 9 | Enough not because we must content ourselves with the minimum , he wrote , but because there is never more , if more means meaning , wholeness , salvation , redemption , all the rest . |
| 10 | Selling merchandise in a public place carries heavy responsibilities , so we concern ourselves with the safety of our customers . |
| 11 | Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital . |
| 12 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 13 | Simultaneously , he concerned himself with the idea that cities were necessary , not evil , but that ‘ without the life of the soil from which to draw its strength , the urban culture must lose its source of strength and rejuvenescence ’ . |
| 14 | News page is a job that Meany has endeavoured to thrust upon himself with the kind of enthusiasm reserved for African Pygmies on an Easter rhino hunt . |
| 15 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 16 | He did not hold out much hope that Merymose would persuade Kenamun to engage him , but there was no harm in familiarising himself with the terrain in advance if he could . |
| 17 | The narrator aligns himself with the character by various means , including the use of concept metaphors , syntactic structure ( Adriaens 1970 , Halliday 1971 , Lee 1976 ) and underlexicalisation ( the use of a restricted vocabulary : see Fowler 1981 , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Where NEWSFLASHes name a member of the department as a contact , the person should familiarise himself with the subject matter and have readily available those to whom reference may be made in order to progress the matter . |
| 19 | Like the Shah , Sadat identified himself with the state . |
| 20 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 21 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 22 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 23 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 24 | When he was then slow in announcing a name , Churchill enjoyed himself with the mot that ‘ Baldwin has to find a man of inferior ability to himself , and this Herculean task requires time for its accomplishment . ’ |
| 25 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 26 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 27 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 28 | He cheered himself with the thought that there was not ‘ an idea I 've ever had that I have n't put down on paper . ’ |
| 29 | Another general consoled himself with the thought that ‘ as the rebels are flesh and blood as well as us … they must , while this bad season lasts , suspend all operations ’ , but was rapidly proved wrong . |
| 30 | ( As his dreams of conquest crashed , Hitler consoled himself with the thought that Allied bombing was only destroying what he had intended to demolish anyway , to make place for his own buildings . ) |