Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting from a critque of Cartesian notions of boundaries , taken to include , for example , the subject and the object of photography , Lomax discusses the contemporary crisis of representation whereby we sense ourselves inhabiting an environment of images , images which refer only to other images . |
| 2 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 3 | Now , in turning to style as recurrence , pattern , frequency we find ourselves taking the reader 's point of view . |
| 4 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 5 | Because of a very busy diary and work commitments that invitation could not be realised until early this August when I and tackle manufacturer , Richard Gardner , found ourselves boarding a ferry at Dover bound for Calais . |
| 6 | ‘ We can now judge ourselves knowing the standards are some of the best in the world ’ . |
| 7 | Er , have we really drawn our programme , we 've got a very complex programme for the , the , tank farm which we did , have we shown ourselves putting the reinforcements in after we 've poured the concrete ? |
| 8 | We may yet find ourselves fighting a war on three fronts , and all one war . ’ |
| 9 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 10 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 11 | It is written as if written by Pip himself reliving the majority of his life . |
| 12 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
| 13 | Athelstan found himself relishing the closeness . |
| 14 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 15 | One diplomat said the attack may have been ‘ Eyadema himself staging an incident to get an excuse for a clampdown on opposition ’ . |
| 16 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 17 | The landlord found himself returning the smile with a grin of his own . |
| 18 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 19 | Does not the Cross reveal a God who is victor , to be sure , but only by means of himself becoming the victim of brutality ? |
| 20 | Auguste busied himself checking the stuffing , unable to get to the root of his unease . |
| 21 | But because he has not disowned his book , himself applying the match and hoisting it aloft on a stick , his gestures have done him no good . |
| 22 | But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate . |
| 23 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 24 | He had awful visions of himself walking the streets , demeaning himself to look for work . |
| 25 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 26 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 27 | As Knocker busied himself filling the bottles , Herbie turned to his main adversary . |
| 28 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 29 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 30 | The chairman of an authority 's education committee could find himself chairing a board of management where serious conflict of interest could arise in the future . |