Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 2 | He walked back the way he had come and let himself out by a gate in the railing where a metal notice planted in the earth read : Department of the Environment . |
| 3 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 4 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 5 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 6 | Girls kissed with their eyes closed and raising themselves up on tiptoe , because that was the cute shot in American movies . |
| 7 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 8 | Julia nodded and pulled herself up from the sofa . |
| 9 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 10 | And diagnosis is very , very important that , if you have a medical , clinical state of depression try and pull yourself out of it , by your , your own efforts and doing alternative things is not necessarily going to be effective . |
| 11 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 12 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 13 | And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs . |
| 14 | Many fail and bail themselves out with overtime . |
| 15 | Boxing : Colchester Boxing Club 's Andy Farrow showed his versatility when faced by a tricky opponent as he moved into the national schoolboys under-42 kilos semi-finals.Up against a spoiling boxer in the shape of Greg Algar of Eltham BC at Sandwich , Farrow persevered and kept himself out of trouble to win by the narrowest of points decisions.The judges awarded the fight to the 14-year-old Alderman Blaxill pupil 60–58 , 59–58 , 58–60 . |
| 16 | She stretched and propped herself up on an elbow , aware that something was not quite right . |