Example sentences of "have [vb pp] ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 3 | Too often we have let ourselves be locked into a ‘ graven image ’ of ourselves , perhaps by parents and teachers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 6 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It gives us the confidence to cope with other apparently insurmountable problems , knowing that we have excelled ourselves before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have got ourselves into a rut |
| 12 | At last he said , ‘ We have got ourselves thoroughly at cross purposes have we not ? ’ |
| 13 | Not at least until we know exactly what we have got ourselves into . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 15 | We have persuaded ourselves that militarily there is not much against which we have to defend ourselves . |
| 16 | We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 19 | We have set ourselves four education targets . |
| 20 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 21 | ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 22 | And we have set ourselves — within the European Exchange Rate Mechanism — the right framework for success in the 1990s . |
| 23 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 24 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 25 | Rather than elevating the rights of the fetus to the exclusion of all the other factors , we have set ourselves the primary task of helping other women who face the dilemma of unwanted childbearing . |
| 26 | The targets that we have set ourselves are clearly summarised ; so , too , is the substantial additional expenditure that we have given to the environment over the past year . |
| 27 | For the future , we have set ourselves a series of targets , spelled out below , which are designed to restore BP 's profitability and build a stronger balance sheet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 30 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |