Example sentences of "[to-vb] ourselves in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 2 | For example , when we speak we tend to express ourselves in short sentences — more " full stops ’ — but in the written language the same ideas are more usually expressed in longer sentences — more commas — and the style and the choice of words will not always be the same . |
| 3 | These people have spiritual needs as real as ours are , so we need to ask ourselves in this parish what are we doing to help them ? |
| 4 | You know , find things to do to occupy ourselves in other ways . |
| 5 | of the electorate — it is impossible for my colleagues and me to involve ourselves in all the work of the House . |
| 6 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 7 | There is no need , the reductivist might argue , to involve ourselves in any extra-linguistic considerations . |
| 8 | We as a church have promised to commit ourselves in three ways : — |
| 9 | ‘ I fear we have to blame ourselves in such matters . |