Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
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	No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us .
6	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 .
7	At British initiative , we committed ourselves at Maastricht to the further enlargement of the Community , starting with the EFTA countries .
8	The only ultimate disaster that can befall us , I have come to realize , is to feel ourselves at home here on earth .
9	We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed .
10	Quickly taking stock of the atmosphere , Pétain remarked icily to Serrigny : ‘ In these circumstances we shall install ourselves at Souilly , where I hope we may find a little more calm . ’
11	We organise everything for ourselves at venture scouts .
12	‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September .
13	He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure .
14	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 .
15	But he proved himself at Charlton Athletic when the chips were down . ’
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	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 .
19	Durkin quickly made himself at home in Carewscourt .
20	This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home .
21	Only , he says , during his leisure does the worker feel himself at home .
22	Industrial relations , as the subject today would be described , was an area in which he instinctively felt himself at home .
23	Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home !
24	‘ The way he makes himself at home . ’
25	‘ When he was here , did he make himself at home ? ’
26	‘ He made himself at home .
27	He quietly made himself at home , and launched upon the usual enquiries about my work and my writing .
28	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 .
29	Having tutored himself at home , Paul received an A grade for A-level computer studies when he was 16 .
30	ONE of this paper 's less chivalrous columnists ( a particularly poisonous character called Gadfly , inhabiting later editions only ) had cause last year to launch himself at Bishop Auckland Tory candidate David Williamson .

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