Example sentences of "[be] [verb] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Naturally I hope not , and the probability is that we 're exercising ourselves over nothing . |
| 5 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 6 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 7 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 8 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 9 | ‘ Although we will not be contesting the election in Darlington and Richmond , we shall be involving ourselves in the debate about environmental issues which have attracted scant attention from the other main parties . ’ |
| 10 | This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality . |
| 11 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 12 | The first step to developing a Christian philosophy of finance would be to commit ourselves to developing the character of Christ in our own lives and helping others do the same . |
| 13 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 14 | And how , by fighting each other , we are placing ourselves in Zacco 's hands ? |
| 15 | ‘ We have resisted that to the extent we are finding ourselves in difficulties with the Government through capping . ’ |
| 16 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 17 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 18 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 19 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |
| 20 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 21 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 22 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 23 | Our first degree of specialisation to make the notion useful is to restrict ourselves to linear operators . |
| 24 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 25 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 26 | ‘ Our position as an extension of the working class is to ally ourselves with the miners and to fight the government 's relocation programme , ’ read a banner outside the university , which was on strike . |
| 27 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 28 | A good starting point for any assertiveness training is to remind ourselves of some of these basic rights ( see Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 29 | So , at one level , all the idea of ‘ metacriticism ’ does is to remind ourselves of what we ordinarily take higher education to be . |
| 30 | A helpful first step is to remind ourselves of current databasing options . |