Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] at [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 5 | If justice reigns at all , we will find ourselves barred at the first threshold of the underworld . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 8 | Ackerley himself marches at the head of this file of memorialists . |
| 9 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 10 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 11 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 12 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 13 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 14 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 15 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 16 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 17 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 18 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 19 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 20 | Francis forced himself to look at the screens again , and he could see that there were less of the winged creatures flitting among the struts and cables . |
| 21 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 22 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 23 | But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 25 | On the subject of negotiations with the government , Mandela emphasized that he himself had at no time entered into negotiations about the future of the country — thus attempting to calm black fears arising from his various meetings with government ministers and the then President P. W. Botha . |
| 26 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 27 | NICRA itself originated at a conference of the Wolfe Tone Societies held in Maghera , County Derry , on the weekend of 13–14 August 1966 . |
| 28 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 29 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 30 | The refusal of Oskar Lafontaine , the defeated SPD candidate for chancellor in the Bundestag elections , to become chair either of the SPD parliamentary group or of the party itself resulted at a congress in Bremen in May in the choice of Engholm ( Minister President in Schleswig-Holstein ) as party chair [ see pp. 37905 ; 38199 ] . |