Sentence examples for raising ourselves from inspiring English sources

We were raising ourselves, and the house was our fort, a fantasy world out of a children's book like "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

"We sort of raised ourselves," she said.

We did raise ourselves to ride farther into the sands on camelback.

We recognise why the CADF have raised this issue as it is one we have obviously raised ourselves".

"A lot of people, children like myself were forced to raise ourselves," he said with a calm, steely voice.

He mourned the death of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green and asked us to raise ourselves and our country to meet her expectations.

Soon, we can raise ourselves skyward so gradually that we just graze the wall with our feet, steady ourselves, and then settle in for 15 or 20 breaths.

"You know," he said, as we raised ourselves from the mats, "if you had been with me at this hour fifteen years ago we might have been doing an entirely different kind of sit-up by now".

We have to talk with them and ask them to avoid saying things like 'shame on you', but without that being received as a criticism of how we were raised ourselves.

Sleepwalking was as much about inheritance as spirits – the terrifying thought that when we produce our own children we bequeath them, unwittingly, the way in which we were raised ourselves.

"I never fail to feel that I am in the presence of a miracle as I explain to my pupils the works of genius of the great musicians," he writes, "and we strive together to the best of our abilities to fathom their depth, probe their mysteries, understand their structure and raise ourselves to their lofty heights".