Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 2 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 3 | Let's face it , we live with our negative parts and generally we may beat ourselves in public . |
| 4 | In some cases subsidence damage will have come to light when a property is being sold and we may find ourselves under pressure to resolve the claim quickly to allow the sale to proceed . |
| 5 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 6 | We may surprise ourselves by feeling , say , anger and guilt towards the person we have lost . |
| 7 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 8 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 9 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 10 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 11 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 13 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 14 | To suggest now that we should commit ourselves to establishing a funding council to carry out certain functions is to change the position that the hon. Gentleman adopted in Committee and my understanding of the Opposition 's view — |
| 15 | Although predating the RRL initiative by several years — and , indeed the emergence of GIS as a major research area — we should remind ourselves of Openshaw 's work on appraising nuclear reactor sites . |
| 16 | At this season of the year we should remind ourselves of the parable that neighbours are not simply the people who live next door , rich friends , or even merely those with whom we agree . |
| 17 | ‘ We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child 's mind , which are first awakened by nature , and consequently first admit of cultivation , that is to say , the memory and the imagination . ’ |
| 18 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 19 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The social charter has an enormous role to play and we should concern ourselves with that , because it is relevant to us all , wherever we live and whatever part of the country we represent . |
| 21 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
| 22 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 23 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 24 | We must protect ourselves by issuing a disclaimer on our liability for the accuracy of any information released , since the source data may be unreliable . |
| 25 | The fact that our partner is of the opposite sex automatically means we must familiarise ourselves with the general information on the basic differences . |
| 26 | In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh . |
| 27 | We must remind ourselves of the contexts in which the relevant terms are acquired . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 30 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |