Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 2 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 3 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 4 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 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 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 7 | Well I think it , we should er congratulate ourselves in having the European Community as a piece of machinery inside which it 's possible to contain a power the size of Germany . |
| 8 | We can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that death must have supervened very quickly . |
| 9 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 10 | Let's go , let's cover ourselves in glory — in Africa , ’ and his usually mild tones rose in indignation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We were given humour to discern our own ridiculous airs and pomposities , and it is even valuable in the transcendent lest we lose ourselves in arrogance and pride and stray far from the real beauty of life . |
| 13 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 14 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 15 | So we involve ourselves in businesses that perform consistently well over time . |
| 16 | Whereas the discussion of strain and its measures involves kinematics only and may be conducted with no mention whatever of the forces that cause the deformation we must when considering stress involve ourselves in mechanics , that is , the nature of the forces operating on a system and the application of Newton 's laws ( we exclude in this discussion any relativistic effects ) . |
| 17 | One key way of protecting ourselves in future is to ensure that the premiums charged fully reflect the risks that the country has to take on in allowing such cover to go forward . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 20 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 21 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 22 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 23 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 24 | Some way along the journey , we inexplicably found ourselves in a Tesco car park in Derby . |
| 25 | We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Yes , erm , we found ourselves in , rather to go back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 30 | 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 . |