Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 2 | ‘ I fear we have to blame ourselves in such matters . |
| 3 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 4 | We 're not putting ourselves in that position — all we 're doing is selling music . ’ |
| 5 | He can be met , really met , only in the encounter in which we finite creatures of time and history are confronted by the One who is infinite and eternal , and who remains infinite and eternal and ‘ wholly Other ’ than ourselves in that meeting . |
| 6 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 7 | Well that 's why I said to you , and , and Laura , er to James , no way would we get ourselves in that position for you you have your lives to lead |
| 8 | We find ourselves in one of the gathering grounds of Edwardian opinion , moving towards a resolution of its deeply felt anxieties . |
| 9 | I feel like we 've parked ourselves in one big rat-trap . ’ |
| 10 | Christ does care about the details of how we conduct ourselves in all these situations , because the standards we have at work either honour him or dishonour him . |
| 11 | of the electorate — it is impossible for my colleagues and me to involve ourselves in all the work of the House . |
| 12 | You know , find things to do to occupy ourselves in other ways . |
| 13 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 14 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 15 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 16 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 17 | ‘ Spotty backs are caused when grease glands become blocked as we wrap ourselves in man-made fibres that inhibit air circulation . |
| 18 | We organise ourselves in different schools of studies . |
| 19 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |
| 20 | It should be remembered that a serving sergeant pilot ( as we called ourselves in those days ) had little clue about the policy that emerged from Arthur Marshall ( Air Ministry ) when the plans for one White Paper were never implemented before another White Paper overtook it . |
| 21 | We as a church have promised to commit ourselves in three ways : — |
| 22 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 23 | For example , when we speak we tend to express ourselves in short sentences — more " full stops ’ — but in the written language the same ideas are more usually expressed in longer sentences — more commas — and the style and the choice of words will not always be the same . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 26 | The situation was changing so fast and we hoped we might find ourselves in this situation . ’ |
| 27 | Traditional mytho-history had simply polarized the time-bound , mortal existence of ourselves in This World of Imperfection against the timeless , immortal perfection of The Other World of . |
| 28 | ‘ For God 's sake , let's take another drink , or shoot the dogs , or call in Claire to dance the fandango , rather than indulge ourselves in this misery ! |
| 29 | These people have spiritual needs as real as ours are , so we need to ask ourselves in this parish what are we doing to help them ? |
| 30 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |