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Jolly good. I suspected somebody as surly as your good self had to inhabit Ol' Blighty.

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I think so. It's a bit of a strange way of saying it, but the meaning is clear. I would have said:

"I wish I could just" ("merely", very commonly used like this, as you may know)...

It's "sacrifice" :).

Some other words are like that though: "licence" (the object) and "to license", "practice" (the thing) and "to practise", and "advice" and "to advise": the only two of these...

Proper Limey English.