Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason . |
| 2 | He is convinced we have to adopt entirely new value systems , change our philosophical orientation and spiritual thinking ; stop behaving as though the earth is here for mankind 's personal convenience and learn to regard ourselves as one small part of a much larger whole . |
| 3 | ‘ We regard ourselves as one of the biggest , if not the biggest , side in Britain . |
| 4 | However frightening a panic attack may be we must always remind ourselves of one fact : none of the symptoms of a panic attack can harm us . |
| 5 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 6 | We find ourselves in one of the gathering grounds of Edwardian opinion , moving towards a resolution of its deeply felt anxieties . |
| 7 | I feel like we 've parked ourselves in one big rat-trap . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 9 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
| 10 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 11 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 12 | Newly married and ecstatically happy , he yet felt compelled to offer himself for one of the war 's most hazardous enterprises . |
| 13 | He sat tensely , guarding himself for one false word or gesture that might dry her up . |
| 14 | GRAHAM GOOCH is preparing himself for one last big effort as an England Test captain on a foreign field . |
| 15 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 16 | He is also establishing himself as one of the best goalkeepers in English football . |
| 17 | The month after he was disciplined , Fleck left Rangers for Norwich City and immediately established himself as one of the most exciting and prolific goal scorers in the English First Division . |
| 18 | Mr Symington , who proudly describes himself as one of the last supply-siders , has cut taxes for the past two years . |
| 19 | Thompson was forced to reshuffle his side because of injuries , work commitments and one player missing the team bus and indeed the manager had to name himself as one of the substitutes . |
| 20 | FORMER jump jockey Micky Hammond is steadily establishing himself as one of the top dual purpose trainers in the North . |
| 21 | Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world . |
| 22 | His breathing gradually slowed as he propped himself against one edge of the desk , drinking . |
| 23 | Throw Enfield a question and he 'll bounce it around , knock off a few apt replies and then launch himself into one of the manic routines from the new show . |
| 24 | He let himself into one of the houses through the skylight and waited , hardly daring to breath , to see if he had been detected . |
| 25 | She found herself peering into nooks and crannies , not that he could manage to conceal himself into one , with his breadth , and was almost disappointed when she realised that he had most probably gone out . |
| 26 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 27 | He knelt on the floor , steadying himself with one hand . |
| 28 | He had a brief memory of McAllister 's bright face , earlier that day , and the thought of enjoying himself with one of Madame Rachel 's girls did not attract . |
| 29 | He hoisted himself onto one of the bar stools and nodded in greeting to the barman who was busy serving another customer . |
| 30 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |