Example sentences of "[vb pp] ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we have now taught ourselves to see benefits to the organism as incidental , as far as natural selection is concerned . |
| 2 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 3 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 4 | In fact this has been a bit over ambitious , very pleased with ourselves were n't we , perhaps we have n't given ourselves enough ? |
| 5 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 6 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 7 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 8 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 9 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 10 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 11 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 12 | Fortunately we have a vaccine to prevent hepatitis B , but how can we tackle the global problem of Hepatitis B when we as healthcare professionals are not even vaccinated ourselves ? ’ he said . |
| 13 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 14 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 15 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 16 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 17 | We shall be examining in due course how organization can make fullest use of books , materials , equipment and ancillaries ; we have reminded ourselves that it can also make fullest use of the many abilities in the staff room . |
| 18 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 19 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 20 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 21 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 22 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 23 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 24 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 25 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 26 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 27 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 28 | Having enjoyed ourselves so much and being impressed by the professionalism shown by our instructor and other divers at the centre , we decided to pursue our new hobby when we returned home . |
| 29 | Ah we feel oh we were we enjoyed ourselves there . |
| 30 | We were hot , tired and feeling none too clean but had we enjoyed ourselves ? |