Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 4 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 5 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 6 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 7 | I caught a glimpse of my assailant , of his ragged and ferocious face , as he paused before hurling himself at me . |
| 8 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 10 | Who made the comment er , about people walking themselves at night ? |
| 11 | I think you were amusing yourself at my expense . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 13 | If you 're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent . |
| 14 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 15 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 16 | They turned on the newly arrived Marines in surprise , and yet with considerable ferocity , hurling themselves at the armed men , who coolly gunned them down , their machetes being no match for rifles . |
| 17 | About a dozen were still milling around , hurling themselves at the fur shop window , almost certainly bullet proof , the rest were arguing or wrestling with about ten policemen who were too busy to tell us to move on even when the lights changed . |
| 18 | The three ravening bolts of fury launching themselves at him now , presented an entirely more complex problem . |
| 19 | You need to be far more dynamic at the front , launching yourself at all sorts of angles . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 21 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 22 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 23 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 24 | If you take that kind of view , then of course Russell 's persistent emotionality and his characterization of the world in these personal terms is a failure , erm something that he was never able to overcome , something for all his passionate moral convictions prevented him from really seeing himself at one with other people . |
| 25 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward gets away from it all , submerging himself at Dartington |
| 26 | First establishing himself at Sockbridge Hall , Lowther moved to London permanently in 1663 . |
| 27 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 28 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 29 | Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt someone . |
| 30 | But for everyone there is a better way of expressing yourself at work or in complaining at the garage , for instance . |