Example sentences of "[v-ing] ourselves [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 2 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 3 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 4 | ‘ We can not go in year after year , tearing ourselves apart in increasingly bitter and calamitous industrial disputes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We can not go on year after year , tearing ourselves apart in increasingly bitter and calamitous industrial disputes . ’ |
| 6 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 7 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 8 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 9 | There is another , more subtle effect of exercise which is to be gained from pushing ourselves periodically to the limits of our endurance , and beyond . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 11 | And by limiting ourselves specifically to stylistic alternatives , we can pinpoint the inferences from the text which are the basis of literary appreciation . |
| 12 | We spent the rest of the week at the cinema , stuffing ourselves hotly with popcorn so oily it stained our clothes . |
| 13 | Positioning ourselves just inside the sheltering arm , outside which we could see an alarming amount of white water , we awaited his signal . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not quite sure what we 're letting ourselves in for , Sam . |
| 15 | Bloody hell , we did n't know what we were letting ourselves in for . |
| 16 | We must know what we are letting ourselves in for , theoretically , when we use such measures . |
| 17 | Well that 's what they 're saying , they 're not , that the committee they say , is basically is voting ourselves back in . |
| 18 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 19 | Taking ourselves back to our basic physical components , we can say that we are built up from multitudes of particles held together by electrical bonds of varying strengths or intensities . |
| 20 | Would we not have repeated the errors of 1914 by involving ourselves again in that region ? |
| 21 | And of entrusting ourselves in to the power of his mercy . |