Example sentences of "[vb base] ourselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the first instance we go to work in order to eat and drink and provide ourselves with shelter . |
| 3 | If we supply ourselves with too much of this energy we store the surplus as fat . |
| 4 | If we content ourselves with anything less , we can only expect to doubt . |
| 5 | Therefore , we content ourselves with a degree of objectivity which represents an acceptable narrowing of the areas of difference between financial reports . |
| 6 | Guilt can also lead us to put a brave face on everything while we overload ourselves with responsibilities and goals . |
| 7 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 8 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 9 | We then find ourselves with these two approaches : the simultaneous and the bilingual . |
| 10 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 11 | This approach means that we do not continue to recruit permanent staff to the Community Charge then perhaps find ourselves with too many permanent staff to fill Council Tax posts . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , we 'd have to adapt to the situation we find ourselves with |
| 13 | ‘ And , as a result , we now find ourselves with perhaps the best assets in Europe . |
| 14 | But while some of us console ourselves with the promise of tuition sometime in the future , others decide to immerse themselves in a more intense personal schedule via the Musicians Institute , located in the heart of London 's Docklands . |
| 15 | Most of the time we console ourselves with the knowledge that we are ‘ good enough ’ , loving parents . |
| 16 | We all surround ourselves with people who share our beliefs so that we feel comfortable , so it 's often the ‘ obvious truths ’ which we most need to question . |
| 17 | We become more resistant to change and often surround ourselves with friends who strongly reinforce our own self-images . |
| 18 | This kind of activity could be called the micro-politics of race , though in practice , as where we align ourselves with the struggles of our brothers and sisters in South Africa , it is more likely to prove the micro-politics of race 's overcoming . |
| 19 | Therefore if we carry ourselves with pride , our self-esteem increases and others will notice . |
| 20 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 21 | We can stay up late and drink too much , not play squash in the morning , go to the pub at lunch-time via the newspaper shop , and stuff ourselves with roast beef and beer . |
| 22 | ‘ We all of us have something better to do than concern ourselves with the tantrums of servants ! ’ |
| 23 | Selling merchandise in a public place carries heavy responsibilities , so we concern ourselves with the safety of our customers . |
| 24 | We identify ourselves with the eternity of the self and no longer with the limitations and distress of our mental and physical ignorance . |