Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 2 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 3 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 4 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 5 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 7 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 8 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 9 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 10 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 11 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 12 | Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over . |
| 13 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 14 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 15 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 16 | It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time . |
| 17 | He was at an age when he could be both inside himself and outside himself at the same time : he knew he was only playing a game , but the game still remained real to him . |
| 18 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 19 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 20 | Indeed this is the heart of Hilton 's argument for the validity of mixed life for the aspiring contemplative , for he says that this very desire , the burning coal which has to be thus nourished by a positive attitude to the demands of both active and contemplative life , is in fact God himself at the very ground of our being . |
| 21 | At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda . |
| 22 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 23 | He called it Boozebusters and the idea was that wives ( and more rarely , husbands ) who were fed up with their partner 's non-stop round of office parties would hire a Boozebuster squad to snatch the miscreant from the pub , or wine-bar or restaurant or even the office itself at a pre-arranged time . |
| 24 | The Patriotic People 's Front ( PPF ) , the umbrella grouping which had comprised the HSWP and other parties represented in the government before liberalization measures were introduced , decided to dissolve itself at a national conference in May 1990 following the poor election result . |
| 25 | A star can therefore maintain itself at a constant radius by a balance between the attraction of gravity and the repulsion that arises from the exclusion principle , just as earlier in its life gravity was balanced by the heat . |
| 26 | The BCP-affiliated Dimitrov Young Communist League dissolved itself at an extraordinary congress on Feb. 24-25 , and an independent Bulgarian Democratic Youth Social Organization was constituted in its place . |
| 27 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 28 | ( op. at. : 6 ) Art sessions took place in the Art Room itself at the far end of the school , and Drama work happened in the hall . |
| 29 | Note that you may only select approved versions for successful approval ( except for the package module which must select itself at the same issue ) or |
| 30 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |