Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ‘ made ’ this year 's Grand National winner , according to trainer Nick Gaselee , teaching the equine giant , nicknamed the Monster Muncher , how to jump and handle himself in a race . |
| 2 | Kathleen turned and studied herself in the mirror . |
| 3 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 4 | Lambert heard something crack and thrash itself in the slipstream , but the plane still flew and although there was stink coming from the engine it was not on fire . |
| 5 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 6 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 7 | What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house . |
| 8 | I 've made lots of forties and fifties but not the big hundreds that get you noticed , ’ strangely adding , ‘ I want to improve my fielding and establish myself in the one-day game . ’ |
| 9 | She started to feel much more comfortable about how she looked , and unconsciously began to relax and to hold herself in the quietly poised way she did when dressed in a nurse 's uniform or casual clothes . |
| 10 | Slipping and injuring yourself in the bath is not only painful but life-threatening . |
| 11 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 12 | Well I 'll go and lock myself in a hotel room next week . |
| 13 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 14 | They could all go hang ; she 'd switch them off and go and submerge herself in the bath for half an hour . |
| 15 | Except at weekends in the summer when the crowds would come and spread themselves in an abundance of activity on the grass . |
| 16 | Finally , reluctantly , she emerged and wrapped herself in a towel , then found another for her hair , winding it turban-style . |
| 17 | Some of their stores were swept away , some of their mounts and pack-horses were bogged , or foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the river beds . |