Example sentences of "[vb infin] ourselves of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , jealousy is futile , but so often we can not rid ourselves of its components and reason ourselves back to a state of equilibrium . |
| 4 | 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 ! ) . |
| 5 | We can not rid ourselves of it . |
| 6 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |
| 7 | His alternative is what he calls an ‘ appreciative ’ stance : ‘ These appreciative sentiments are easily summarized : we do not for a moment wish that we could rid ourselves of deviant phenomena . |
| 8 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We can remind ourselves of , and help our children to realise , the need at all times for compassion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Before looking more closely at our departed medium Doris and other psychics and their phenomena , let us remind ourselves of the main areas . |
| 14 | Let us remind ourselves of the grounding formula for choices of ends : |
| 15 | We must remind ourselves of the contexts in which the relevant terms are acquired . |
| 16 | However frightening a panic attack may be we must always remind ourselves of one fact : none of the symptoms of a panic attack can harm us . |
| 17 | First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Right so just to summarize erm let's , let's remind ourselves of the , the issues we 've raised here . |
| 21 | Let us therefore remind ourselves of the huge distances , inner and outer , that Joyce has travelled , and take one final look at his total undertaking . |