Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " 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 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 3 | And yet it was inevitable , given our subject matter , that we should find ourselves caught in the inherent conflict between fact and faith . |
| 4 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 8 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 12 | Er we do have to get involved with the community and we just find ourselves drawn into the community without any real problems . |
| 13 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If justice reigns at all , we will find ourselves barred at the first threshold of the underworld . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 21 | When we then find ourselves confronted by the weary who need sustaining , both in personal conversation and in public worship alike , we have this reservoir to draw on . |
| 22 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 23 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 24 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 25 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |
| 26 | Offe himself refers to the exhaustion of the potential of the labour movement and explicitly endorses Gorz 's ( 1982 ) Farewell to the Working Class . |
| 27 | On a number of occasions in the novel , the narrator Marcel himself refers to the intellect as a kind of lattice-work , with which we try to capture reality , but through which reality flows and escapes us . |
| 28 | When he excused himself to go to the bathroom Simone turned to her , her dark eyes shining . |
| 29 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 30 | Ackerley himself marches at the head of this file of memorialists . |