Example sentences of "[to-vb] ourselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Szeliga says : ‘ We are not coming in to buy market share ; we aim to promote ourselves at the quality and mid-priced end of the market . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we still make certain assumptions about them and about our relationship to them , otherwise we would simply not know how to orient ourselves towards the language , or what to say . |
| 3 | Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved . |
| 4 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 5 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 8 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 9 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 10 | The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry . |
| 11 | Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ . |
| 12 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 13 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 14 | This is another classic example of our ability to shoot ourselves in the feet . |
| 15 | The type of sampling used in the five community studies is quotasampling , and our main concern is not to claim absolute representativeness for the whole city , but to guard ourselves against the accusation that our informants might be hand-picked from amongst friends and neighbours — or , worse , from our students . |
| 16 | We 're going to lock ourselves inside the fragile skin of a small floating home , and all of us , three of us anyway , at odds and full of motives I did n't understand . |
| 17 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 18 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 19 | We 're about to rid ourselves of the blood and fat of the buffalo . " |
| 20 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 21 | But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible . |
| 22 | This would be a counterblast to the growing propaganda of the Left , not only in Oxford but outside — in fact , I suggested that it should be called Counterblast , with Wyndham Lewis 's ‘ puce monster ’ , Blast , in mind — but we were as anxious to dissociate ourselves from the Right . |
| 23 | Most of us will try anything to ease ourselves of the pain of having been unsatisfactory children . |
| 24 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 25 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 26 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 27 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 28 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’ |