Example sentences of "we [verb] ourselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
| 32 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 33 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 34 | ‘ We committed ourselves to the City of Edinburgh initiative asking companies to set aside a suitable proportion of the cost of any development to commission new works of art . |
| 35 | He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country . |
| 36 | We committed ourselves to the fight against terrorism . |
| 37 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 38 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 39 | The set of laws given is not exhaustive ; we restrict ourselves to the laws needed to translate finite programs to normal form . |
| 40 | Say we picture ourselves in a desert and all these people want some water , but one person goes and gets it ? |
| 41 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 42 | We imagined ourselves in a cosy little country practice , jogging along comfortably and enjoying our work . |
| 43 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 44 | And erm you know as lorry drivers , we we class ourselves as the professionals of the road , but at the end of the day our standards or our reputation is tarnished by the actions of a few is n't it ? |
| 45 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 46 | We threw ourselves against the door , and as the lock broke we went in . |
| 47 | We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school . |
| 48 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | We have identified some areas of weakness , and others in which we believe that the investment of resources will substantially improve the way in which we present ourselves to the public , and provide services which we are currently unable to undertake . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 53 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 54 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 55 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
| 56 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 57 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 58 | We commit ourselves to the surgeon when we go into hospital for an operation ; we commit ourselves to the hairdresser , to the dentist and so on … |
| 59 | We commit ourselves to the surgeon when we go into hospital for an operation ; we commit ourselves to the hairdresser , to the dentist and so on … |
| 60 | every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew . |