Example sentences of "[vb infin] ourselves [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 2 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 3 | We can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that death must have supervened very quickly . |
| 4 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 5 | It is suggested that we should develop in co-operation , or at least in parallel , with similar organizations , so that we do not paint ourselves into a corner with incompatible technologies . |
| 6 | In this way , though we do not rid ourselves of the ego , we do transcend it and make it softer and enable ourselves to see things calmly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
| 9 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 10 | He first isolated pure lines of eight paired traits ; of which we shall confine ourselves to the lines of tall ’ and ‘ short ’ peas . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , we do n't confine ourselves to the town . |
| 12 | We can lock ourselves in the basement , away from that bloody thing outside and until this Darkfall storm blows over . ’ |
| 13 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 14 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 15 | In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh . |
| 16 | Derek and I will organize ourselves about the transcription machine and |
| 17 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 18 | Sam and I can amuse ourselves on the Sunday , and that will give you the opportunity to take Anna to the Forest . ’ |
| 19 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 20 | We 'll hide ourselves in a corner and celebrate ! ’ |
| 21 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Could n't we all get ourselves onto the night shift ? ’ suggested Sam . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll let ourselves into the corridor from Puddephat 's rooms , ’ Geoffrey replied . |
| 25 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 26 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
| 27 | We can put ourselves in the place of the poet or the friend ; we can be either the sender or the receiver . |
| 28 | What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house . |
| 29 | Let us remind ourselves of the grounding formula for choices of ends : |
| 30 | 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 . |