Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We give up seeing ourselves as ‘ the dream child ’ , ‘ the shadow child ’ , ‘ the rejected child ’ , or any of the other wounded images that affect our relationships with others . |
| 2 | Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work . |
| 3 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 4 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 5 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 6 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 7 | It reminds me of the words of Robbie Burns , oh would the Gods the gift to gi us , to see ourselves as others see us . |
| 8 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 9 | The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business . |
| 10 | All this is widely socially sanctioned , so we can hardly describe ourselves as ‘ animal lovers ’ . |
| 11 | He was somewhat taken aback when we identified ourselves as Customs , muttering something about clearing customs at Poole Quay later . |
| 12 | We have successfully positioned ourselves as a Bank which wants its customers ' savings . |
| 13 | That too is why we welcome the appointment by the Government of consultants to examine the feasibility of privatisation as an important step along the path of establishing ourselves as an independent business . |
| 14 | Establishing ourselves as a credible force in Germany and further east is not a simple task , but I am confident that we are gradually putting the team in place who will achieve this objective . |
| 15 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Frustrated at the limited roles offered to black actresses , they produced On A Level , a revue-style show ‘ which gave us a chance to express ourselves as artists , not stereotypes ’ . |
| 18 | Every single operation we go on whether we are in uniform or in plain clothes er and we are carrying a firearm , we need to identify ourselves as police officers . |
| 19 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 20 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 21 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
| 22 | We do n't see ourselves as special people and we do n't see ourselves as having specific financial credentials , although some members of our group , not myself , may have those , but we try by listening to the people who 've elected us and listening to in general comments that are made from outside the council , which is a terribly closed body . |
| 23 | In addressing this task we combined local , national and international action , distinguishing ourselves as a strategic force for conservation . |
| 24 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 25 | We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school . |
| 26 | We do — quite practically and with useful influence — if we choose to cast ourselves as a vigorous , amending , debating part of the European team . |
| 27 | ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel . |
| 28 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 29 | One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together . |
| 30 | In the immediate term , we saw ourselves as a resource which the B.Ed . |