Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 2 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 3 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 4 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 5 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 6 | We 've repeated ourselves and all this lot and he said well no if you 're like coming out with sayings like chill out man |
| 7 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 8 | We 've , we 've , we 've run ourselves down far too long , and er I think this is true of us as individuals , |
| 9 | In skipper Chris Dickson 's words : ‘ We 've dug ourselves a pretty big hole and it 's getting dark down there . ’ |
| 10 | For a long time now we 've called ourselves poor , but we 've managed to get along . |
| 11 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 12 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 13 | No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case . |
| 14 | Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available . |
| 15 | I feel like we 've parked ourselves in one big rat-trap . ’ |
| 16 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've found ourselves in a spot of bother with the police over at the office . |
| 18 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 19 | ‘ We 've got ourselves lost , ’ Vi said . |
| 20 | I mean , look at this lot we 've got ourselves mixed up with . |
| 21 | ‘ Do my best for you , but sometimes we do n't know what we 've got ourselves . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Tuppe , whatever we 've got ourselves into is something really big . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , just the one , I think , Mrs Padmore , ’ he replies drily , ‘ until we 've got ourselves a shade more sorted out . ’ |
| 24 | Now all I have to do is persuade you to sign a contract for a lot longer than six months , and we 've got ourselves a deal . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 26 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 27 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 28 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 29 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 30 | By the time we reached Totnes , in Devon , we had abandoned ourselves to our despair . |