Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 2 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 3 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 4 | Positioning ourselves just inside the sheltering arm , outside which we could see an alarming amount of white water , we awaited his signal . |
| 5 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 6 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 7 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 8 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 9 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 10 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 11 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 12 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 13 | It is a problem not easily solved by the classic methods of stratigraphical palaeontology , as obviously we will land ourselves immediately in an impossible circular argument if we say , firstly that a particular lithology is synchronous on the evidence of its fossils , and secondly that the fossils are synchronous on the evidence of the lithology . |
| 14 | ( We shall not concern ourselves here with the exact formulation of the regularity : we shall merely note the evidence of its presence . ) |
| 15 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 16 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 17 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 20 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 21 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 22 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 23 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 24 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He shrugged , spreading his arms wide , then threw himself down upon a threadbare chaise-longue , his hands behind his head . |
| 27 | Passengers and passers-by alike found its wide , illuminated photographs of mouth-watering meals irresistible — though at a cost ( in 1980 ) of nearly £½million , Casey Jones was obviously going to pay for himself only at the busiest venues . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |