Example sentences of "ourselves on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
2 | ourselves on that , that 's new |
3 | We obviously ca n't go thrusting ourselves on that poor woman now . ’ |
4 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
5 | The solid ground rocked and heaved beneath us , but we were soon gorging ourselves on rich noodles and spicy chilled crabs and lobster — forbidden fruit while amongst our Islamic Bugis . |
6 | Integrated Programmes — we pride ourselves on developing programmes which integrate management development with the achievement of business objectives as well as achieving an integrated design within the programme itself . |
7 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
8 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
9 | If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice . |