Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available .
2 And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips !
3 We 've found ourselves in a spot of bother with the police over at the office .
4 We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich .
5 Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education .
6 We have dug ourselves into a hole .
7 Inevitably , once we have established ourselves into a new way of eating , progress does seem a little slower .
8 ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people .
9 Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion .
10 ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke .
11 We have got ourselves into a rut
12 We have divorced ourselves from the landscape and the countryside and one of the implications of this is that we are apt to see our visits to ancient sites from the perspective of the tourist — as a spectacle .
13 ‘ … we have found ourselves at the end of the research thoroughly persuaded of its merits .
14 We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’
15 But in the end when the mind has become permanently calm and we have released ourselves from the enslavement by the child , we can relax our guard and bring together the diverse parts of life in a total unity ,
16 And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options .
17 We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family .
18 The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way .
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