Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she just did it out of the goodness of her heart — or perhaps ( and this thought provoked a fresh spurt of giggles in my throat ) half the little souvenirs that littered her room were tokens of gratitude — from Torquay , Margate and Llandrindod Wells — I pulled myself together with a great effort , and took my hands from my face . |
| 2 | Tonight , I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury . |
| 3 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 4 | I pull myself up to a sitting position . |
| 5 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 6 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 7 | I see myself really as an impresario . |
| 8 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
| 9 | The unconscious seems involved in a deep way , in part due to their setting themselves up as a Chosen People of God the Father . |
| 10 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 11 | Plainly the man who wrote this was the man who in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley took as his model and master Gautier , who described himself proudly as a man ‘ pour qui le monde visible existe ’ . |
| 12 | As she slipped into the water beside them Rachel was aware that David had thrown a large orange ball into the pool before jumping in himself , and within seconds she found herself part of a noisy , boisterous game of water hand-ball . |
| 13 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 14 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 15 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 16 | Wilkie , who describes himself modestly as a working journalist , then tracked down the poet 's widow . |
| 17 | Self-styled funniest programme on telly HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU dusts itself off after a very poor return to the screen last week with well-known wit Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 18 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 19 | She angled herself on to a stool . |
| 20 | She pulled herself up onto an elbow to gaze at him . |
| 21 | She pulled herself together with an effort , trying to remember what she 'd been told about wine-tasting , holding the glass carefully by the stem , and sniffing delicately . |
| 22 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 23 | She saw herself perhaps as an Elizabeth Bowen heroine — for one did not openly identify oneself with Jane Austen 's heroines and To The North was her favourite novel . |
| 24 | Refuse to be my wife and you limit yourself forever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity . |
| 25 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 26 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 27 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 28 | LABORATORY analyst Emma Lawrie found the right formula for courage when she hurled herself out of an aircraft at 2,200ft . |
| 29 | She pushed herself up into a sitting position . |
| 30 | I even hoped the Germans would overrun our positions and so allow me to give myself up as a prisoner . |