Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
| 2 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 3 | Hitching himself over to sit beside Joe on the edge of his bed , Len now persisted , ‘ You must have some place , you know . ’ |
| 4 | He checked himself over to make sure there was no blood on his clothes . |
| 5 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 6 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 7 | Gazzer hauled himself up to sit on top of the pill-box . |
| 8 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 9 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 10 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 11 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 12 | He gave a short , humourless laugh , and levered himself up to investigate the hamper . |
| 13 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 14 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 15 | His face was puce with rage and frustration , but bearing a fist on the battlements where they stood looking out over the Sound , he brought himself back to calm by sheer willpower . |
| 16 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 17 | So Rémy set out to explore the situation , and laid himself out to please , and his gifts and graces , when he tried , were considerable . |
| 18 | ‘ Market maker ’ is defined as including any person on a recognised exchange , whether an individual , partner , or company , who holds himself out to make a continuous succession of prices and is recognised as doing so by that exchange . |
| 19 | Then he opened the rear door and painfully eased himself out to stand , swaying , alongside the car . |
| 20 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 21 | Jinkwa shuffled himself about to face the Environments Officer . |
| 22 | He preached the importance of youth ( ‘ Everyone over 25 should be shot ’ ) when he was himself about to enter his late twenties ; he said his band was a singles band with a short life span ( ‘ We 'll made four great records and retire ’ ) ; and he said Wedding Present songs and sets would always be very short ( sets now last an hour and songs like ‘ Take Me ’ , for over eight minutes ) . |
| 23 | First , if you spin it on the table , ‘ stalk ’ upward , it almost immediately flips itself over to spin upside-down , balancing on the stalk' . |
| 24 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 25 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 26 | At its annual conference in 1978 , as the Party girded itself up to meet the forthcoming General Election , there was a full-throated debate on the imminent threat to ‘ law and order ’ . |
| 27 | In the 1974 licence to assign C.T. , then itself about to take an assignment of the lease , entered into a direct covenant with the landlord to pay the rent and observe and perform the covenants and conditions on the part of the lessee contained in the lease during the residue of the term . |
| 28 | As she flung herself down to clasp his knees he stood rigid . |
| 29 | And Rosie took herself off to get dressed . |
| 30 | It looks like she 's nerving herself up to step forward . |