Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 2 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 4 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 5 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 6 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 7 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 8 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 9 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 10 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 11 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 12 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 13 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 14 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 15 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 16 | Maltote staggered to his feet and went down to relieve himself in the necessary house . |
| 17 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 18 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 20 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 21 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 22 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 23 | Acheson himself in the early months of 1950 set out to imbue the British and other members of Nato with a greater sense of urgency . |
| 24 | I think he even been on the boards himself in the early days . |
| 25 | He felt no call to entangle himself in the ecclesiastical-political questions of his day . |
| 26 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 27 | Gordon Selfridge , who went on to do rather well himself in the department-store business , started as one of Marshall 's clerks . |
| 28 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 29 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 30 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |