Example sentences of "[vb pp] to ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 2 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 3 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 4 | And incidentally , we have also demonstrated to ourselves , yet again , that 5 per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 5 | Our experience over the last few years has shown that there is work available in the sectors in which we operate and we have proved to ourselves that we can win business . |
| 6 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 7 | Alexander realized that the right thing to do would be the last thing that we would think of doing , if left to ourselves . |
| 8 | If left to ourselves , we would never dream of doing anything that does not ‘ feel right ’ . |
| 9 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 10 | One copy should be returned to ourselves duly signed . ] |