Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't talk about this , ’ says Mr Jarvis , 50 , who this week opened with his wife Rosalind Ayres in Alan Ayckbourn 's Just Between Ourselves at the Greenwich Theatre , south London . |
| 2 | Just create a problem for ourselves at the moment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 5 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 8 | Kylie and a lifesize cardboard cutout of herself at the London launch of her debut album , simply titled Kylie . |
| 9 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 10 | Take three photographs of yourself at the beginning of this programme — a straight front view , a side view and a back view . |
| 11 | You and your so-called friends make spectacles of yourselves at the party , litter the garden with debris and vandalise this fountain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The velvet — or baize , for the lesser mortal — was always used sparingly , tucked in behind itself at the angles of the coffin and the width of the plank at the top . |
| 16 | We do n't quite know what to do with ourselves at the moment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And Malone is even managing to get in trouble with himself at the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't be ungrateful , ’ said Caroline , who was a bit above herself at the best of times . |
| 22 | Pye 's new robot programme started in January 1973 , with myself at the head . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hairflair interviewed the Edinburgh lass who is cutting a name for herself at the Charlie Miller salon . |
| 25 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 30 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |