Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
2 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
3 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
4 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
5 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
6 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
7 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
8 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
9 | Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms . |
10 | Tom settled himself down at the table and said , ‘ Now , let's have a chat about what we 're going to do when this snow clears . |
11 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
12 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
13 | And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs . |
14 | I settle myself down at the mirror . |
15 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |