Example sentences of "[vb base] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on . |
| 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 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 7 | We must again remember to search for the constitution amongst the realities , and not confine ourselves to pretty normative structures . |
| 8 | Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity . |
| 9 | Even if we confine ourselves to the difference of aim between reformist and revolutionary parties ( or of social movements , which can be classified in a similar way ) , the distinction can not always be made in an absolutely clear-cut fashion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ? |
| 12 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 13 | As adults , however , many of us cripple ourselves with fears of making mistakes , of making a wrong decision , of failing , of feeling embarrassed , of repeating the past . |
| 14 | The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken . |
| 15 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 16 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 17 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 18 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 19 | So are we saying Mr Chairman that , we er launch ourselves into an adventure like an assessment without actually having an idea of the cost ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the first instance we go to work in order to eat and drink and provide ourselves with shelter . |
| 22 | The issue is that you know we build ourselves round the church . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So we involve ourselves in businesses that perform consistently well over time . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | If we supply ourselves with too much of this energy we store the surplus as fat . |
| 27 | We rank ourselves amongst our peers very early on , so far as our physical attractiveness is concerned : we make our sexual moves within the group appropriate to our vision of ourselves . |
| 28 | If we content ourselves with anything less , we can only expect to doubt . |
| 29 | Therefore , we content ourselves with a degree of objectivity which represents an acceptable narrowing of the areas of difference between financial reports . |
| 30 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |