Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back . |
| 2 | We should not regard this situation lightly or allow ourselves to fall into a purely reactive management position . |
| 3 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 4 | And thirdly , and certainly not erm least , we hoped ourselves to benefit at a time when the Government cutbacks were just come into force , which were requiring us to raise erm more income from non-government source . |
| 5 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 6 | And yet it was inevitable , given our subject matter , that we should find ourselves caught in the inherent conflict between fact and faith . |
| 7 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 8 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 9 | For if we suppose this we shall fall into an infinite regress ; we shall find ourselves looking for a further interpretation . |
| 10 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 11 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 12 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 13 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 14 | First of all we have to time ourselves according to the buses which are one an hour out of the village into town , which is just a five minute journey . |
| 15 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 16 | Just as it was our duty , we felt , to shower two or three times a day and keep ourselves wrapped in a permanent cloud of Charlie perfume , so , it seemed , it was the male imperative to cultivate mossy teeth and socks that could stand up on their own . |
| 17 | It will be a new experience for both Wanderers and ourselves to play with a knitted football . |
| 18 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 19 | Er we do have to get involved with the community and we just find ourselves drawn into the community without any real problems . |
| 20 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 21 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 22 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 23 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 24 | However , we can restore the corners without disturbing the edges , and once the corners are correct , we can not find ourselves left with a single pair of edges to exchange ( as we shall see later ) . |
| 25 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 26 | For example , particles like well , anyway , by the way require some meaning specification in a theory of meaning just like all the other words in English ; but when we come to consider what their meaning is , we shall find ourselves referring to the pragmatic mechanisms that produce implicatures . |
| 27 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 28 | If justice reigns at all , we will find ourselves barred at the first threshold of the underworld . |
| 29 | We like mixed-ability teaching in principle — but it 's such hard work ( if you 're not going to cop out and use worksheets all the time ) that we find ourselves longing for the good old days of streaming . |
| 30 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |