Example sentences of "[prep] ourselves [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Finally I declared that we had no Chiefs only innumerable Indians ; that meetings and even pow-wows were not found necessary ; that communication was by smoke-signal , both between ourselves of the load-bearers form Cubs to Grandfathers/mothers ; and our pipes of peace the traditional Taylor soup and bread and cheese .
2 ‘ I ca n't talk about this , ’ says Mr Jarvis , 50 , who this week opened with his wife Rosalind Ayres in Alan Ayckbourn 's Just Between Ourselves at the Greenwich Theatre , south London .
3 We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles .
4 Just create a problem for ourselves at the moment .
5 We can hear that for ourselves in the records that have been issued of Karajan rehearsing the late Mozart symphonies or the Finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony .
6 ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us .
7 And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future .
8 We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority .
9 As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before .
10 As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God .
11 We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole .
12 And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character .
13 Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves .
14 Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out .
15 We do n't quite know what to do with ourselves at the moment .
16 They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth .
17 At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions .
18 Each step leads us upward and forward , each providing further transformation of our lives before God and before ourselves in the light of God .
19 WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation .
20 It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is .
21 We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England .
22 In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth .
23 Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half .
24 Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s .
25 I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single
26 Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive .
27 This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages .
28 If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one .
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