Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves for " in BNC.
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| 1 | McAllister did not quite know how to answer him , and said slowly , ‘ I suppose that at some time or other we all sell ourselves for something . ’ |
| 2 | We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on . |
| 3 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 6 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The rest of us were left to reproach ourselves for what had happened . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've nothing to reproach ourselves for . ’ |
| 10 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 11 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 12 | We punish ourselves for ‘ failing ’ and believe that we can not be loved , desired or respected unless we get thin ; and punishment is also linked to profit . |
| 13 | We have managed to confuse ourselves for years with the jargon of lithostratigraphy , biostratigraphy , chronostratigraphy and the rest . |
| 14 | May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity . |
| 15 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 16 | There are changes we should all make ( if we have not made them already ) that have nothing to do with losing weight but are more to do with equipping ourselves for working at peak performance . |
| 17 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |
| 18 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 19 | THERE WERE eight of us who had voluntarily submitted ourselves for treatment at the clinic : two lawyers , two Italian businessmen , two bankers , a fashion designer and me . |
| 20 | CHARITY is a divine attribute , but we are enjoined to give forgetfully lest we fall into the absurd error of mistaking ourselves for gods . |
| 21 | Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship . |
| 22 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 23 | Here we submit to a deep sea-change of hormonal rhythms and intestinal flora — and prepare ourselves for unknown months of deep immersion amongst the wilder regions of the archipelago . |
| 24 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 25 | We should n't kid ourselves for in factories and workplaces around the country G M B and T & G are at each other 's throats . |
| 26 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . |
| 27 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . ’ |
| 28 | In addition , 1992 will see the European Community as one free market and we have to prepare ourselves for further competition from other EC countries . |
| 29 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 30 | How are we going to prepare ourselves for that competitive market er if our interest rates are such that they 're starving industry of it 's investment and pushing business after business into liquidation and throwing people out of jobs ? |