Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If there is to be no common musical material we are going to find ourselves with something which , however distinguished , is not distinguishable , and which is therefore of questionable value . |
| 3 | He seems to be playing really well at the moment and to let him go at this stage would be killing shooting ourselves in the foot . |
| 4 | The rest of us were left to reproach ourselves for what had happened . |
| 5 | At the end of the underground man 's tirade ‘ generalhumans ’ appears as the notional creatures we are trying to turn ourselves into because ‘ we feel it 's too much of a burden to be men — men with real bodies , real blood of our own' . |
| 6 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 7 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |