Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 2 | Quickly taking stock of the atmosphere , Pétain remarked icily to Serrigny : ‘ In these circumstances we shall install ourselves at Souilly , where I hope we may find a little more calm . ’ |
| 3 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 4 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 5 | ‘ When he was here , did he make himself at home ? ’ |
| 6 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 7 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 8 | High remuneration , excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today . |
| 9 | He could picture himself at the court of King Louis , accepting the thanks of his grateful monarch . |
| 10 | Only , he says , during his leisure does the worker feel himself at home . |
| 11 | He that boy has got a heart as big as a mountain I 'll tell ya , in those situations he will sling himself at anything . |
| 12 | If the object-glass of a refractor or the mirror of a reflector is of poor quality , the images will also be poor — and a bad telescope does not always betray itself at a glance . |
| 13 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 14 | And what was it but deception that she should present herself at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and allow him to think she was her sister ? |
| 15 | The warren rabbits did n't show themselves at once . |
| 16 | More and more trainees will present themselves at centres with widely varying degrees of knowledge , skills and attitudes in different areas and will ask for these to be recognised in some way or other . |
| 17 | Such investors tended to come in when stocks were exchanged rather than present themselves at the moment of initiation . |
| 18 | And if you ca n't organize yourself at work then it 's a ten to a penny that you ca n't organize the other bits either . |
| 19 | The program can learn about new classes and the relationships that exist between classes and can modify itself at run-time . |
| 20 | He just did n't look himself at all . |
| 21 | He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles . |
| 22 | She did n't understand herself at all ! |
| 23 | The style is based on the premise that if you can defend yourself at the eight compass points covered by the trigrams you will be fully protected from attack . |
| 24 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 25 | For an instant , Jimmy wondered whether he should hurl himself at the plate-glass windows . |
| 26 | Note that you may only select approved versions for successful approval ( except for the package module which must select itself at the same issue ) or |
| 27 | A star can therefore maintain itself at a constant radius by a balance between the attraction of gravity and the repulsion that arises from the exclusion principle , just as earlier in its life gravity was balanced by the heat . |
| 28 | Before he had ever seen one , in the early days on HMS Beagle , Darwin worked out that fringing reefs , around islands in an ocean whose bed was slowly sinking , might maintain themselves at sea-level . |
| 29 | He 's a midfield player really , because he is very good on the ball , and he ca n't express himself at centre half . |
| 30 | He 'll not hide himself at Riverstown . ’ |