Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 2 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 5 | I feel like we 've parked ourselves in one big rat-trap . ’ |
| 6 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 7 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got ourselves lost , ’ Vi said . |
| 9 | I mean , look at this lot we 've got ourselves mixed up with . |
| 10 | ‘ Do my best for you , but sometimes we do n't know what we 've got ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Tuppe , whatever we 've got ourselves into is something really big . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , just the one , I think , Mrs Padmore , ’ he replies drily , ‘ until we 've got ourselves a shade more sorted out . ’ |
| 13 | Now all I have to do is persuade you to sign a contract for a lot longer than six months , and we 've got ourselves a deal . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available . |
| 16 | For a long time now we 've called ourselves poor , but we 've managed to get along . |
| 17 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've found ourselves in a spot of bother with the police over at the office . |
| 19 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 20 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 21 | We 've , we 've , we 've run ourselves down far too long , and er I think this is true of us as individuals , |
| 22 | We 've repeated ourselves and all this lot and he said well no if you 're like coming out with sayings like chill out man |
| 23 | In skipper Chris Dickson 's words : ‘ We 've dug ourselves a pretty big hole and it 's getting dark down there . ’ |
| 24 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 25 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 26 | Too often we have let ourselves be locked into a ‘ graven image ’ of ourselves , perhaps by parents and teachers . |
| 27 | We shall be examining in due course how organization can make fullest use of books , materials , equipment and ancillaries ; we have reminded ourselves that it can also make fullest use of the many abilities in the staff room . |
| 28 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 29 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 30 | 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 . |