Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 2 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 3 | Her husband appeared to have something wrong with him — he was shaking as if shell-shocked and propped himself up with a walking stick in his right hand . |
| 4 | He said that I was killing myself , getting injured and mashing myself up for nothing . |
| 5 | She lumbered out of bed , reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom . |