Example sentences of "[vb past] ourselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 2 | We scrambled up the track and found ourselves beside the inevitable little mountain railway . |
| 3 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 4 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 5 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 6 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 7 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 11 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 12 | We imagined ourselves in a cosy little country practice , jogging along comfortably and enjoying our work . |
| 13 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 14 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 15 | every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew . |
| 16 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 17 | We treated ourselves to a sweet as well . |
| 18 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 19 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 20 | Sir John asked as we warmed ourselves before the great fire whilst Lady Beatrice and Rachel served spiced wine . |