Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He looked at himself critically in the small mirror on the window ledge in the lean-to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships . |
| 12 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 13 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 14 | He moved with a lithe easy grace across the room and stretched himself out in an easy chair . |
| 15 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 16 | FitzAlan hurled himself forward in a low tackle , the pike whistling harmlessly over him . |
| 17 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 18 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 19 | Until he can hold himself safely in the correct positions without increasing his spasticity when he is lying down , sitting , standing , or walking , he has to be helped to move in every situation . |
| 20 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 21 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 22 | The aim , he avers , is to develop an idiom from the necessity of the thing itself : ‘ This shows itself possibly in an urban romanticism , and a concern with characterisation , attitude and atmosphere . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 'll switch itself off in a few seconds . ’ |
| 24 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 25 | Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad . |
| 26 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 27 | It will no doubt sort itself out in a few days . ’ |
| 28 | At present , Ann led and Megan followed , but that would sort itself out in the long run . |
| 29 | But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode . |
| 30 | Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case . |