Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 2 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 3 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 4 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 5 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 6 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 7 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 8 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 9 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 10 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 11 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 12 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 13 | As we write for an instrument we must be playing it in our imagination , with the right bowings and fingerings , feeling the sensations of different registers , expressing ourselves through the different tones and timbres , the possibilities of legato , staccato , vibrato , etc . |
| 14 | We 're going to lock ourselves inside the fragile skin of a small floating home , and all of us , three of us anyway , at odds and full of motives I did n't understand . |
| 15 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 16 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 17 | The fact that our partner is of the opposite sex automatically means we must familiarise ourselves with the general information on the basic differences . |
| 18 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 19 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 20 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 21 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 23 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 24 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 26 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 27 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 28 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 29 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 30 | So let's really all commit ourselves to the national raffle and make it the biggest and most successful raffle Save The Children has ever had . |