Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reverting to the situation we find ourselves in at this moment , there are four facts that can be regarded as certainties or near-certainties . |
| 2 | Now , our visual arts policy could be summed up as follows : It 's our main concern to bring about a social financial climate more conducive to the health of the visual arts than that which we find ourselves in at present . |
| 3 | At last he said , ‘ We have got ourselves thoroughly at cross purposes have we not ? ’ |
| 4 | Eventually when we found ourselves nearly at 1,500ft , I said to myself , and into the microphone , quite plainly so he could overhear : " This puts the undercarriage up . " |
| 5 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 6 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 7 | And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs . |
| 8 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 9 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 10 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 11 | Tom settled himself down at the table and said , ‘ Now , let's have a chat about what we 're going to do when this snow clears . |
| 12 | Passengers and passers-by alike found its wide , illuminated photographs of mouth-watering meals irresistible — though at a cost ( in 1980 ) of nearly £½million , Casey Jones was obviously going to pay for himself only at the busiest venues . |
| 13 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 14 | He had no desire to defeat boredom by provoking political excitement and keeping himself constantly at a stretch . |
| 15 | ‘ Now then , ’ he said , crouching under the eave and seating himself comfortably at the foot of his bed , ‘ what 's it all about , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 17 | As he breasted the deck level Delaney ducked back , threw himself aside at the sight of the figure sprawled on the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 19 | ‘ Nice house , ’ said Joe , sitting down , for he was still young enough to make himself instantly at home . |
| 20 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 21 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 22 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
| 23 | Gillis-Tweed finally gave himself up at 1.20pm yesterday when he dropped his weapon and left the house . |
| 24 | If you 're on your own , treat his display with cool disdain and simply ignore him as you walk past ; or strongly assert yourself and tell him to cover himself up at once — but remember , no threats . |
| 25 | Jones , reeling from a £20,000 fine and suspended six-month ban imposed by the FA for his part in a video nasty about soccer dirty tricks , has to pick himself up at Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 27 | He gave himself up at High Down Prison , in London . |
| 28 | The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 29 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 30 | Unable to resist any longer , he flung himself back at Robert . |