Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 32 | Freeing himself at last from the invisible sheet , he rolled over and lay on top of her , covering her with his body , his face very close to her own . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 34 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 35 | Although neither Mrs Chalmers , the light-bulb lady , nor old Frank who does tyres and drives the Recovery , work Sundays , Pa is always ready to collect vehicles himself at any time , night and day , weekends included . |
| 36 | People would imagine that a type conference would be an extremely dull affair , but in fact it was like , barely able to control himself at any one time . |
| 37 | They were published by Green himself at 3 Windmill Street , Manchester on the 19th January 1796 . |
| 38 | The working hypothesis I end with , however , is that the subjective experiences of work , engendered by the application of particular rational-scientific principles of work organization , can have the psychic consequence that the worker is asked to manage himself at less than a mature level . |
| 39 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 40 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |
| 41 | Corbett related that he felt much like committing suicide himself at this point . |
| 42 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 43 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 44 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 45 | Now to some , George Best telling Cantona to behave himself at Old Trafford is a bit like Stan Flashman lecturing on etiquette . |
| 46 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 47 | He has backed himself at 16-1 to complete the marathon haul to Margate in 130 hours , and he is on course to win . |
| 48 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 49 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 50 | External factors such as slowness by the contractor may be causing programme delay and the manager must have the ability to involve himself at senior level within the organisations causing delay , in order to try to influence change in the progress of the work . |
| 51 | There is also a speed-sensitive rear spoiler which automatically raises itself at higher speeds , though most owners will find the built-in anti-theft alarm and immobiliser much more practical for use in the UK . |
| 52 | Another effect of intrinsic curvature is revealed when a vector is transported round a closed path in such a way that it is moved parallel to itself at each step of the journey . |
| 53 | Fonda examined the premise and eventually saw that they were making a much broader statement about the American Dream and the state of the nation itself at that precise moment in time . |
| 54 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 55 | Well , when you release you have to do it in stages , so when we introduced the owls to their new home from the aviary we limited their freedom to the box itself at first . |
| 56 | Moral intervention was by itself at best a mere palliative unless co-ordinated by official sanitary regulation . |
| 57 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 58 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 59 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 60 | GE scours the world for companies which are better than GE itself at some specific aspect of business and then asks to pick their brains . |