Example sentences of "[vb pp] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 3 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 4 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 5 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 6 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 7 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 8 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 9 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 10 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 11 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 12 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 13 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 14 | I feel like we 've parked ourselves in one big rat-trap . ’ |
| 15 | We have successfully positioned ourselves as a Bank which wants its customers ' savings . |
| 16 | Having freed ourselves of the shackles of the classical conception of the company and its assertion that it is only the interest of the shareholders as property owners that the law should seek to protect , it becomes evident that a whole web of relationships of interdependence exist around and within the company . |
| 17 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 18 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |
| 19 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |
| 20 | Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available . |
| 21 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 22 | We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family . |
| 23 | The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way . |
| 24 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 25 | shown ourselves into the river . |
| 26 | We have got ourselves into a rut |
| 27 | ‘ Tuppe , whatever we 've got ourselves into is something really big . |
| 28 | Not at least until we know exactly what we have got ourselves into . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 30 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |