Example sentences of "ourselves in " in BNC.
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| 31 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 32 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |
| 33 | There is today a growing awareness of ourselves in relation to our environment . |
| 34 | In an ideal world , If we all became truly aware of ourselves in relation to others , there would be no need for greed or violence — but we are still far from our ideal world . |
| 35 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 36 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 37 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 38 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 39 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 40 | We were given humour to discern our own ridiculous airs and pomposities , and it is even valuable in the transcendent lest we lose ourselves in arrogance and pride and stray far from the real beauty of life . |
| 41 | To enter into the eternal is to bring ourselves in contact with this movement within us , which is the movement of the eternal . |
| 42 | By defining our problem more clearly we help ourselves in deciding what we are going to do about it . |
| 43 | Practically every day in one way or another we carry out some form of sampling for ourselves in our ordinary daily round . |
| 44 | In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people . |
| 45 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 46 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 47 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 48 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |
| 49 | And this is where we are in danger of finding ourselves in a vicious circle : for industry one has got to have products and to get products one has got to have industry … |
| 50 | Then we are bringing our past experiences and present interests to bear on what we read ; in short , we are actively involving ourselves in reading , at last able to comprehend what the text means to us , and what it can do to and for us . |
| 51 | They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth . |
| 52 | From our union we gave of ourselves in what way we could to those who sought or needed our support . |
| 53 | We all find ourselves in a situation at some time where we have to carry a very heavy suitcase , or where a parcel has been delivered and has to be lifted into the house . |
| 54 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 55 | To see things differently means changing ourselves in some way , and most of us are reluctant to do this . |
| 56 | And how , by fighting each other , we are placing ourselves in Zacco 's hands ? |
| 57 | ‘ Spotty backs are caused when grease glands become blocked as we wrap ourselves in man-made fibres that inhibit air circulation . |
| 58 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 59 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 60 | Fashion editors , after all , are forever exhorting us to express ourselves in every peplum , to use checks to tell the world where we are at , and to affirm our commitment to the modern lifestyle with Lycra . |