Example sentences of "found ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 3 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 4 | If it had been the Chinese who engulfed the world in a wide-embracing economic system , we might well have found ourselves using jade rather than gold as a symbol of supreme value . |
| 5 | we have found ourselves , but lost each other . |
| 6 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |
| 7 | ‘ … we have found ourselves at the end of the research thoroughly persuaded of its merits . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've found ourselves in a spot of bother with the police over at the office . |
| 9 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 10 | He says ; Over the last 48 hours we have found ourselves drawing closer together as a group . |
| 11 | We have even found ourselves teaching a little bit of linguistics , since some of the comrades seemed interested . |