Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation . |
| 2 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 3 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |
| 4 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 5 | With a muffled groan she rolled on to her side and screwed herself up into a tight ball , alternately hot and shivery with emotion . |
| 6 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 7 | I was going to tell her I had taken her keys and let myself back into the house , " he added , " but I arrived too late . |
| 8 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 9 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 10 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 11 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 12 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 13 | She slid her fingers from her friend 's grasp and pulled herself up in the bed , a smile lighting up the ageing beauty of her face . |
| 14 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 15 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 16 | She swung her bottom south-south-west and steered herself off up the path . |
| 17 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 18 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 19 | She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga . |
| 20 | After further disagreements with Hoveyda , Zahedi left the Foreign Ministry and took himself off to his fathers house in Switzerland . |
| 21 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 22 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 23 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 24 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 25 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 26 | She was like an experienced woman , the way she moved her body and opened herself up to him . |
| 27 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 28 | He moved with a lithe easy grace across the room and stretched himself out in an easy chair . |
| 29 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 30 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |