Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 2 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 4 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 6 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 7 | If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one . |
| 8 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half . |
| 10 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 11 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 12 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 13 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 14 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 15 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 16 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 17 | When George Abbott , the Archbishop of Canterbury , accidentally shot dead a gamekeeper , Andrewes , as a member of a commission of enquiry , urged his colleagues ‘ Brethren , be not too busy to condemn any for uncanonicles according to the strictness thereof , lest we render ourselves in the same condition . ’ |
| 18 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 19 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 20 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 21 | And here give up ourselves in the full bent To lay out service freely at your feet , To be commanded . |
| 22 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 23 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 24 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 25 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 26 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 27 | Maltote staggered to his feet and went down to relieve himself in the necessary house . |
| 28 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 29 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 30 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |