Example sentences of "we have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " 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 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 4 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 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 must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ … we have found ourselves at the end of the research thoroughly persuaded of its merits . |
| 9 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 10 | In this short debate , we have to address ourselves to the question whether the discount of 25 per cent . |
| 11 | 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 , |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |