Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 7 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 9 | Er we do have to get involved with the community and we just find ourselves drawn into the community without any real problems . |
| 10 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 17 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Offe himself refers to the exhaustion of the potential of the labour movement and explicitly endorses Gorz 's ( 1982 ) Farewell to the Working Class . |
| 20 | When he excused himself to go to the bathroom Simone turned to her , her dark eyes shining . |
| 21 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 22 | Ackerley himself marches at the head of this file of memorialists . |
| 23 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 24 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 25 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 26 | And Ollie managed to get himself sacked from the place . |
| 27 | He swung himself to sit on the edge of the bed , and dropped his head in his hands . |
| 28 | Thinking that the police were arresting the wrong man , he attempted to attract the arresting policeman 's attention , and seized his arm for this purpose , since he could not make himself heard over the hubbub . |
| 29 | When he could make himself heard over the roar of the aircraft and the storm outside we heard him say : ‘ My God , I forgot to bring the air mail ! ’ |
| 30 | One of his rules , which Miss Claybury could not contest , was that all patients must be spoken to kindly , but it was hard to make himself heard above the noise . |