Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 2 | A few days later , after we had established ourselves in Montreal , we called him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
| 5 | ‘ At last we are getting the reward for our hard work and we will be challenging for the world title ourselves in a couple of years , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not just that the objectives have been achieved , of getting the policy reviews endorsed , and conducting ourselves in a way that will attract the British people . |
| 7 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |
| 8 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 9 | This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun . |
| 10 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 11 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 12 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 14 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 15 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 16 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 17 | In sense-perception we have a conscious awareness of material things around us , such as trees and stones , things which we can later represent to ourselves in memory and imagination . |
| 18 | If the Eucharist is that important , a second question follows : How can we help others to understand its theological significance as well as its mystery to which we subject ourselves in humility ? |
| 19 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 20 | No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) . |
| 21 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 22 | Say we picture ourselves in a desert and all these people want some water , but one person goes and gets it ? |
| 23 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 24 | We can hear that for ourselves in the records that have been issued of Karajan rehearsing the late Mozart symphonies or the Finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony . |
| 25 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 26 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 27 | We can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that death must have supervened very quickly . |
| 28 | The essence of being human consists in the values we place on ourselves in being human beings . |
| 29 | We looked at ourselves in terms of our compulsive traits , seeing the weakest aspects of our inner lives . |
| 30 | Each step leads us upward and forward , each providing further transformation of our lives before God and before ourselves in the light of God . |