Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 2 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 3 | We can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that death must have supervened very quickly . |
| 4 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 5 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 6 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
| 7 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 8 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 9 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 10 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 11 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
| 12 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 13 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 14 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 15 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
| 16 | We can lock ourselves in the basement , away from that bloody thing outside and until this Darkfall storm blows over . ’ |
| 17 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |
| 18 | We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions . |
| 19 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 20 | This is another classic example of our ability to shoot ourselves in the feet . |
| 21 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |
| 22 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |
| 23 | And just in case it was not Magellan who & t uttered the word , then perhaps it was Pigafetta : ‘ We debouched from that Strait , ’ he later wrote , ‘ engulfing ourselves in the Pacific Sea . ’ |
| 24 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 25 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 26 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 27 | yeah and that 's the problem with this sort of whatever sort of watch you wanted to do , unless unless we encourage and get the backing of the troops on the ground we 're kicking ourselves in the teeth |
| 28 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 29 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 30 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |