Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 2 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 3 | Then , we remind ourselves of the supreme example of Christ , who placed his trust in his father 's love and ascended the hill of Calvary for our redemption . |
| 4 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 5 | At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 . |
| 6 | First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past . |
| 7 | It is useful to avail ourselves of the general habit of personifying the law and talking of what it requires , permits , claims , authorizes , etc . |
| 8 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 9 | Although we do not need to reconsider all the issues relating to the corporatisation of local government during the 1970s , it is important to remind ourselves of the widespread adoption of policy and resources committees , consisting of the senior elected members ( with sub-committees specialising in land , finance , personnel and performance review ) . |
| 10 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 11 | The fact that our partner is of the opposite sex automatically means we must familiarise ourselves with the general information on the basic differences . |
| 12 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |
| 13 | Sir John asked as we warmed ourselves before the great fire whilst Lady Beatrice and Rachel served spiced wine . |
| 14 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 16 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 17 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 18 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 19 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 20 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 21 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 22 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 23 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 24 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 25 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 26 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 27 | We 're going to lock ourselves inside the fragile skin of a small floating home , and all of us , three of us anyway , at odds and full of motives I did n't understand . |
| 28 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 29 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 30 | And kill them , you say , and help ourselves to the great burrow ? |