Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] ourselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would brave the icy blast , stagger down the hill and stuff ourselves to the gills with scrambled or poached eggs on buttery toast , or light-as-air omelettes , followed by giant sized mugs of good , strong tea and thick slices of bread and farm butter , all priced to suit the hard-up airman 's pocket . |
| 2 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 3 | We swam in the lake and sunned ourselves on the lawn among the flowering magnolias . |
| 4 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 5 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 6 | We scrambled up the track and found ourselves beside the inevitable little mountain railway . |