Example sentences of "[to-vb] oneself [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they talk about these matters and the need to engage oneself with one 's history , he realizes that ‘ history ’ is the operative word . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best comparison is that of seasickness … finally one abandons one 's self to it , one has no longer even the strength to cover oneself with one 's pack as protection against splinters , and one scarcely still has left the strength to pray to God … |
| 3 | To abstract oneself from them , means to abstract from … the fundamental characteristic of the ‘ new economics [ since ] the fundamental , decisive relationship of production is the relationship of the working class leadership in production both towards every stratum of the proletariat taken separately and towards the technical intelligentsia … it is possible and permissible to abstract yourself from whatever you like , but to abstract yourself from that which determines the content of an historical production model is something not permitted to the Marxist . |
| 4 | In a busy life , it is easier to avoid embarrassment than to have to extricate oneself from it . |
| 5 | The need to disassociate oneself from it then follows . |
| 6 | ’ He sees the struggle for definition as ‘ veritably the struggle for life itself ’ , and that to perceive oneself for oneself is a matter of life and death : ‘ In short , he who first seizes the word imposes reality on the other : he who defines thus dominates and lives ; and he who is defined is subjugated and may be killed . ’ |
| 7 | This may involve sharing in the experience of those under study and trying to put oneself in their position . |
| 8 | Not easy though , he wrote , to submit oneself to it , to enter its orbit . |
| 9 | The assumption is that of I. A. Richards : that it is possible to disengage oneself from one 's own prejudices , beliefs , experiences , indeed , one 's own historical and social location , in order to shape a purely aesthetic or literary response to the text . |
| 10 | An obvious subject for preparation is to remind oneself of one 's assets . |
| 11 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |