Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 2 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 3 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 4 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 5 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 6 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 7 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 8 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 9 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 10 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 11 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 12 | And monthly-payment forms of credit , also generally cheaper , tend to rule themselves out for the reasons given above . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 14 | But as she sang , the voice seemed to lift itself out of the setting , out of the plot , and become a performance in itself . |
| 15 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 16 | Not only to advocate the giving of second chances but also to say that I hope that Shaun and the rest manage to get themselves out of the rut they 've dug for themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ I like their style of football and would like to test myself out in the Sydney Premiership . |
| 18 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 19 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 20 | NORTH Down have an extra special reason for wishing to haul themselves out of the Harp International League at the third attempt … next season heralds the Comber club 's centenary year . |
| 21 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 22 | Did you have to psych yourself up for the part ? |
| 23 | In the opening sequence the Poet is so concerned with the Friend and his future existence that he seems to write himself out of the picture . |
| 24 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 25 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 26 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 27 | Unable to pass through the flame , he managed to cast himself back onto the side of the platform he had entered from . |
| 28 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 29 | That 's the only thing I use to think myself back into the past . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |