Example sentences of "we [verb] ourselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 2 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 3 | Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity . |
| 4 | Even if we confine ourselves to the difference of aim between reformist and revolutionary parties ( or of social movements , which can be classified in a similar way ) , the distinction can not always be made in an absolutely clear-cut fashion . |
| 5 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 6 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 8 | The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken . |
| 9 | Therefore , we content ourselves with a degree of objectivity which represents an acceptable narrowing of the areas of difference between financial reports . |
| 10 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 11 | As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised . |
| 12 | The issue is that you know we build ourselves round the church . |
| 13 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 16 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 17 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 18 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 19 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 20 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 21 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We found ourselves in a hall where a masked ball was in progress . |
| 24 | Suddenly at St Aubyn 's we found ourselves in a crowd of seventy boys , nearly all older . |
| 25 | But not this year , but because we found ourselves in a very embarrassing situation with the forty point limit and the fact that we 've got Hans Nielson on ten point three two which you know , is good in one respect , but it erm makes very difficult situations down the bottom end . |
| 26 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
| 27 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
| 28 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 29 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 30 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |