Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 32 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 33 | out armour , throwing himself at the enemy , and the ignorant sympathisers remonstrated with him . |
| 34 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 35 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 36 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 37 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 38 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 39 | But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move . |
| 40 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 41 | He launched himself at the taller of the two men , dragging him back . |
| 42 | Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ? |
| 43 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 44 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 45 | As soon as the basic tasks were finished , it was Jonadab 's custom to seat himself at the parlour table with a ledger and a leather drawstring bag full of money . |
| 46 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 47 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 49 | At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district . |
| 50 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 51 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 52 | Then , snatching a lance from one of them , he placed himself at the apex and , couching the lance , shouted to charge . |
| 53 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 54 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 55 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 56 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 57 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 58 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 59 | The 36-year-old player-manager will play himself at the expense of either Steve McMahon or Rick Holden , both of whom cost £900,000 . |
| 60 | RICHIE Richardson will find himself at the centre of another bitter Yorkshire bust-up tonight . |