Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [det] " 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 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 3 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 4 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 5 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 6 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 7 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 8 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 9 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |
| 10 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 11 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 12 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 13 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 14 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 15 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 16 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 17 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 18 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 19 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 20 | Piggott , 57 , found himself in all sorts of trouble on Martin Pipe 's 6–4 shot , who came from way back to take third place in the SIS Live Action Claiming Stakes won by Sarah-Clare . |
| 21 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 22 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 23 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 24 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 25 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 26 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 27 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 28 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 29 | Today when the four younger boys left for school , Jack helped himself to another cup of tea . |
| 30 | Death helped himself to another six cookies . |