Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , we had come to place ourselves under the authority of the hairdressers , to cast ourselves upon their mercy since , with the snip of the scissors , our dreams could be realized or ruined . |
| 2 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 3 | But you know , there is an instruction there , that we must , we must be careful , and prepared to examine ourselves in in all sincerity and truth , before we come to communion . |
| 4 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 5 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 6 | ‘ Thomas Hardy called this island the isle of slingers in his books because of the way we used to defend ourselves with slings and stones . |
| 7 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 8 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 9 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 10 | We as a church have promised to commit ourselves in three ways : — |
| 11 | The rest of us were left to reproach ourselves for what had happened . |
| 12 | We have managed to confuse ourselves for years with the jargon of lithostratigraphy , biostratigraphy , chronostratigraphy and the rest . |
| 13 | We had managed to squash ourselves into a corner table with two pints of strong winter-warmer beer . |