Example sentences of "[to-vb] ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 3 | But , Szeliga says : ‘ We are not coming in to buy market share ; we aim to promote ourselves at the quality and mid-priced end of the market . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , we still make certain assumptions about them and about our relationship to them , otherwise we would simply not know how to orient ourselves towards the language , or what to say . |
| 5 | Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved . |
| 6 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 7 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 8 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 9 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 10 | It reminds me of the words of Robbie Burns , oh would the Gods the gift to gi us , to see ourselves as others see us . |
| 11 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 12 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 13 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 14 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 15 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 16 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 17 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 18 | This feeling that we must fight to preserve ourselves against a hostile world is paralleled by deep male fears of losing bodily integrity and idenity . |
| 19 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 20 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 21 | Also a good pointer where we 've been able to compare ourselves with civil engineering scaled fees , which was on the Overtown Bank Slip which was a job which went completely right , perfect no problems . |
| 22 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 23 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 24 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 25 | Let us strive for relationships that are mutual and be careful not to impose ourselves on people who do n't want or need us . |
| 26 | One common reply to the first two sceptical arguments is to say that we have no reason to worry ourselves about them . |
| 27 | I do n't think we need to worry ourselves about people being offended . |
| 28 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 29 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 30 | If there is to be no common musical material we are going to find ourselves with something which , however distinguished , is not distinguishable , and which is therefore of questionable value . |