Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the situation " in BNC.

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1 Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 .
2 ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation .
3 More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation .
4 But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast .
5 In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them .
6 God knows how they manage to keep this about themselves with the situation as it is .
7 This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell .
8 The past year has been a vexing time for most research councils finding themselves in the situation of having to reduce their volume of activity within a failing budget .
9 One way will ensnare you and entangle your life to such an extent that you will find it difficult to extract yourself from the situation in which you suddenly find yourself .
10 I was thinking of ethnography , which means you have to immerse yourself in the situation and talk to the people involved like an anthropologist would .
11 But , if you do find yourself in the situation of describing an area of life you are unfamiliar with , remember the man with the magnum of champagne and avoid , as far as you possibly can , using any fact , however trivial , however seductive , that you have no warrant for in someone else 's words or pictures .
12 Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there .
13 It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail .
14 Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance .
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