Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 2 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 3 | We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout . |
| 4 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 5 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 6 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 7 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 8 | My master sat rocking himself gently in the chair . |
| 9 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 10 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 11 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 12 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 13 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 14 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 15 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 16 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 17 | Stationing himself approximately in the centre of his front , he raised his sword high and ordered the charge . |
| 18 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 19 | He is one of the few first-class players who make a point also of drinking in the public bar at grounds rather than cocooning himself away in the players ’ or sponsors ' lounges . |
| 20 | He looked at himself critically in the small mirror on the window ledge in the lean-to . |
| 21 | König had from student days interested himself deeply in the life and works of Rudolf Steiner ( 1861–1925 ) , the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy . |
| 22 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 23 | He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything . |
| 24 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 25 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 26 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 27 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 28 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 29 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 30 | Unfortunately for his cause he succeeded in alienating many of the gentry who might otherwise have supported him and in tying himself up in the increasingly convoluted legal knots with which the later Tudors sought to define their rights . |