Example sentences of "[to-vb] oneself [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , therefore , most important to train oneself in problem answering beforehand . |
| 2 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 3 | It was best to identify oneself in relation to one 's clerical superior . |
| 4 | Leisure is to be understood as the ability to absent oneself from work . |
| 5 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 6 | Quiz programmes , for instance , appealed to people as a means of excitement and escape from worries , an opportunity to rate oneself in comparison with other people and possibly to learn something . |
| 7 | This system may require some initial experimentation to familiarise oneself with exposure times , chemical strengths etc. , but it is much more convenient in many respects , especially if you are involved with designing/prototyping as well as routine project building . |
| 8 | Here there are activities with which to occupy oneself in addition to the popular walking . |