Example sentences of "[prep] ourselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultative procedures for the conduct of Management Services reviews has been carried out , you will be aware that there have been several consultative meetings between ourselves concerning this matter . |
| 2 | We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Children and young people are entitled to the same levels of respect , consultation and competent practice that we advocate for ourselves as professional workers . |
| 5 | let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ? |
| 6 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 7 | ‘ We made some bad defensive errors we sometimes make it hard for ourselves with some naive defending as a team and this is something we have to improve on . ’ |
| 8 | On our first meeting we had told Barney that we wanted to book the melin for ourselves for two weeks in June , and both it and the cottage for Christmas . |
| 9 | Providing the trophies , getting to know the people involved , and getting publicity obviously for ourselves from that , which has been very rewarding , very enjoyable . |
| 10 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 11 | It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 16 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 17 | Ultimately , I believe that er , the best interest is leave it to ourselves by that particular process , and with that Chairman , I wish to conclude . |
| 18 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 19 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 20 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 21 | We do not look at ourselves in any kind of subservient relationship . ’ |
| 22 | Out of the hundreds of pictures that my husband Bob Turner and I took , we decided to publish a book by ourselves of 130 images showing the life , culture and people of Calcutta . |