Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [noun sg] " 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 | Internal ‘ drivers ’ are additional pressures that we put on ourselves at work and at home . |
| 3 | Going for quality not only means the way we do our work , but the standards with which we conduct ourselves at work . |
| 4 | The Midland Personal Accident Plan has been specially negotiated for you , between ourselves at Sun Alliance , and Midland Bank . |
| 5 | The hour to which we journalists strictly ration ourselves at lunchtime had already passed and the mart reports would n't sub themselves , but a selection of citric sorbets proved worth the extra 45p . |
| 6 | The only ultimate disaster that can befall us , I have come to realize , is to feel ourselves at home here on earth . |
| 7 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 8 | We organise everything for ourselves at venture scouts . |
| 9 | Aunt Carrie said Desmond is a real good worker when he 's on his own with his dad , and Dominic seems to behave himself at work , ’ said Joe . |
| 10 | The weather and the course were at their most benign as Fulton Allem , of South Africa , made himself at home on his first appearance at Augusta . |
| 11 | He therefore travelled through the greater part of England , observing everything , but was equally careful to inspect all ornamental and kitchen gardens , and to make himself at home and acquainted with all horticulturalists , for he was of the opinion that he could learn something useful which he did not know before at least from some of them . |
| 12 | When the headmaster telephoned the boy 's father , he was told by that unusually permissive parent that , if the teachers could not hold his son 's attention , it was better for the boy to educate himself at home . |
| 13 | Durkin quickly made himself at home in Carewscourt . |
| 14 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 15 | Only , he says , during his leisure does the worker feel himself at home . |
| 16 | Industrial relations , as the subject today would be described , was an area in which he instinctively felt himself at home . |
| 17 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 18 | ‘ The way he makes himself at home . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When he was here , did he make himself at home ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He made himself at home . |
| 21 | He quietly made himself at home , and launched upon the usual enquiries about my work and my writing . |
| 22 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 23 | Having tutored himself at home , Paul received an A grade for A-level computer studies when he was 16 . |
| 24 | The linoleum beside the chest was badly stained by spills from the big white pot where he relieved himself at night when the house was very quiet and scary . |
| 25 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 26 | He 's a midfield player really , because he is very good on the ball , and he ca n't express himself at centre half . |
| 27 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 28 | ‘ Any advantage the Americans have around the greens has been taken away this year because the rough is n't so severe , ’ added the Scot , who learned much about himself at Pebble Beach when he finished third behind Tom Kite . |
| 29 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
| 30 | She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school . |