Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer . |
| 2 | We could bind that ourselves at next to no cost . |
| 3 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 4 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 5 | High remuneration , excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today . |
| 6 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 7 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 8 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 9 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 10 | Dauntless felt a little chagrined she was n't more impressed and grateful , but then he supposed he looked little other than a lunatic scrap himself at that moment . |
| 11 | He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles . |
| 12 | After a spring and summer during which he was so busy with his ordinary duties that he had no time to himself at all — not even his evenings — he returned again to America in the late autumn of 1950 . |
| 13 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 14 | Mr Brice , it turned out when he got to C4 , was not older than himself at all . |
| 15 | ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly . |
| 16 | He refuses to commit himself at all on the dating of Abdulkerim 's Muftilik , not even naming the sultan in whose reign it occurred . |
| 17 | Even if he had not known Aunt Emily himself at all well , he seemed to have an inkling of Alexandra 's feelings and he was , among all those condoling faces , the only one she felt comfortable with . |
| 18 | He just did n't look himself at all . |
| 19 | He must n't strain himself at all . |
| 20 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 21 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 23 | Howard imagines himself at one with the infinite . |
| 24 | The galley was shaped like a three-sided square , and by parking himself at right angles to the double sink , his back to the companionway ladder , Nathan had her trapped . |
| 25 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 26 | The past includes a violent father who walked out on the family when Banks was 12 , and running away from home himself at 18 to join Castro ( ‘ In the late Fifties , remember , he got a great press in the States . |
| 27 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 28 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 29 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 30 | GUIL stirs himself at last . ) |