Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's go , let's cover ourselves in glory — in Africa , ’ and his usually mild tones rose in indignation . |
| 2 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 3 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 4 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 5 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |
| 6 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 9 | It is the younger age range to whom we must make ourselves more attractive and appealing . |
| 10 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 11 | We believe that men and women together must free ourselves so as to be able to construct a new form of society . |
| 12 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 13 | We must count ourselves lucky , then , that our own Earth is big enough to retain an atmosphere , and therefore to retain liquid surface water . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 16 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose we should consider ourselves jolly lucky , ’ Peacock said . |
| 20 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 21 | ‘ Miss Rose , we must introduce ourselves , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ And I am glad to be here , ’ Florence Ames said , ‘ so we must enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 'll be a long night , with much talk , and we must fortify ourselves beforehand as best we may … ’ |
| 24 | In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh . |
| 25 | In order that we can respond , we must organize ourselves , industry and by sector . |
| 26 | Those of us who are Christians should feel ourselves abundantly blessed . |
| 27 | Bristol has plans for roads and great civic works which we should interest ourselves in … |
| 28 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | " 'We must defend ourselves as best we can , " said the fox . |