Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just create a problem for ourselves at the moment . |
| 2 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 3 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 4 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 5 | Take three photographs of yourself at the beginning of this programme — a straight front view , a side view and a back view . |
| 6 | You and your so-called friends make spectacles of yourselves at the party , litter the garden with debris and vandalise this fountain . |
| 7 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 8 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 9 | Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out . |
| 10 | We do n't quite know what to do with ourselves at the moment . |
| 11 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 12 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 13 | And Malone is even managing to get in trouble with himself at the moment . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 15 | Pye 's new robot programme started in January 1973 , with myself at the head . |
| 16 | HIGHBROOK , a horse tipped to make a name for herself at the winter game , catches the eye tomorrow as Flat racing grabs the attention for the last time this year . |
| 17 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 18 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |
| 19 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 20 | Primarily though it 's how you are in yourself at the time which determines whether you are going to get up the mountain and get back down . |
| 21 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 22 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 23 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 24 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 25 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 26 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 27 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 28 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 29 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 30 | Though Japanese prints , which he collected avidly , helped distil their decorative beauty , their strict linearity is at times offset by whip-lash curves , as the line of the trees doubles back on itself at a bend in the river . |