Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] ourselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 2 | We soon reached an Inn at a place called Hardraw , and descending from our vehicles , after warming ourselves by the cottage fire we walked up the brook side to take a view of a third waterfall … |
| 3 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 4 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 5 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 6 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 7 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 8 | There was certainly no implication in classical criminology , as there was to be in positivist , that we can ignore the content and operation of legal rules in addressing ourselves to the question of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 9 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |
| 10 | Strength and independence are useful prerequisites in de-fending ourselves against the effects of stress , but they need the support of a communal sense of responsibility , of sharing a load , and of sharing it fairly in order to make the load feel lighter . |
| 11 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 12 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 13 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 14 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 15 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 16 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |