Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
2 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 .
3 THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it .
4 A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 .
5 Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence .
6 As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen .
7 There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable .
8 First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle .
9 The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level .
10 But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me .
11 Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency .
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